Results for "Grupo Afro Boricua"

Grupo Afro Boricua

Bombazo

By Grupo Afro Boricua

Label: Blue Jackel
Released: 1999

Grupo Afro-Boricua: Bombazo

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 1999

William Cepeda is a man on a mission. For some time the trombonist for the United Nation Orchestra has stressed the music of Puerto Rico, so we do not forget its contribution to the Latin sound. His album Afrorican Jazz: My Roots and Beyond put a big band atop bomba drums and “versa negro” chanting (Capeda ...

Grupo Afro Boricua: Bombazo

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 1999

Dizzy Gillespie would have loved this. No Jazz to speak of, at least as we normally employ the term, but an abundance of captivating and colorful Latin rhythms from Puerto Rico, home of Grupo Afro Boricua and its director, William Cepeda. Grupo Afro, it says in the liner notes, is a leading exponent of Puerto Rico’s ...