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Bombazo

Label: Blue Jackel
Released: 1999

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Article: Album Review

Grupo Afro-Boricua: Bombazo

Read "Bombazo" reviewed by AAJ Staff


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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Grupo Afro Boricua: Bombazo

Read "Bombazo" reviewed by Jack Bowers


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 ...


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