Jazz Articles about Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band

Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band: Rumba Buhaina

by Jim Santella
December 6, 2005

The music of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers serves as a suitable theme for this album by Jerry Gonzalez and his Latin jazz band, since they exhibit the same kind of percussive drive with integrated melody that the hard bop drummer and his quintets shared with us for decades.

It's been almost two decades already for Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, which continues to excite with its fiery blend of Latin flavors and improvised adventure. ...