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Ruben Rodriguez

There are many ways to measure the greatness of a musician. You can talk dollars or awards or recordings or even high-profile gigs. But for the best of the best, put your money on the ones that other musicians talk about. Among Latin bass players, that's Ruben Rodriguez. His first big gig was with Johnny Colon in 1979. Since then he's worked with Tito Rojas, Luis Ramirez, Ray de la Paz, Willie Colon, Dave Valentin, Charlie and Eddie Palmieri, Hilton Ruiz, Johnny Pacheco, Jose Fajardo, The Fania All Stars, and the late great Machito to name just a few. In the mainstream jazz field there's people like Grover Washington Jr

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Circles In A Yellow Room

Label: VOF Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Valentine; Funky Chai Cha; Circles; El Cuarto Amarillo; Back Slap; Midwinter Day; Marble Race Rematch; River Watch; Wellspring; The Trek.

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Latin Crossroads

Label: Ovation Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Blackbird; The Summer Knows; One The Street Where You Live; Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; Showever the People; Aranjuez; Bad Things; 'Round Midnight; Tonight;Romeo and Juliet; Green Flower Street.

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Article: Liner Notes

Steve Khan: Patchwork

Read "Steve Khan: Patchwork" reviewed by Rafael Vega Curry


Few artists have been as successful as Steve Khan in achieving a genuine blend of jazz and Latin sensibilities, rhythms and sonorities. In fact, it can be suggested that no one else has done what he has accomplished for the jazz guitar, offering both the extensions of what Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell and Grant Green did ...

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Woods

Label: CJMartinete Music Co.
Released: 2022
Track listing: You're The Best Pops; Wheelbarrow Blues; Eyes Over Dawn; Dreams of Brazil; Woods; Snuggle & Cuddle; Not That Far Away; Bamboo Path; Smoketacular; Outside In The Rain.

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Not That Far Away

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Label: CJMartinete Music Co.
Released: 2022
Duration: 7:50

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The Latin Side of Horace Silver

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Nica’s Dream; Song for My Father; The Gods of the Yoruba; Peace; The Cape Verdean Blues; Filthy McNasty; Silver’s Serenade; Nutville.

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Article: Album Review

Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Horace Silver

Read "The Latin Side of Horace Silver" reviewed by Jack Bowers


New York-based trombonist Conrad Herwig began exploring the “Latin side" of various jazz musicians in 1996, with The Latin Side of John Coltrane, which earned him the first of four Latin Grammy Award nominations. Since then, Herwig has done the same for Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson and, now, pianist Horace Silver. The ...

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Article: SoCal Jazz

Steve Khan: A Rich Discography and A Priceless Left Hand

Read "Steve Khan: A Rich Discography and A Priceless Left Hand" reviewed by Jim Worsley


The life and times of guitarist extraordinaire Steve Khan stretch through a high volume of evolving chapters that fuse together like the passages of a finely crafted arrangement. An expansive conversation with Khan touched on a variety of memories. Still, this is perhaps the Reader's Digest version of the seventy-three years old musician and composer's remarkable ...

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Patchwork

Label: Tone Center
Released: 2019
Track listing: Epistrophy; C. & D. (Civilización y sus Descontentos); Bouquet (Un Ramo De Flores); Naan Issue; Shade of Jade (Un Tono de Jade); Too Late Now (Demasiado Tarde); T. & T. (Tötem y Tabú); The Journey Home (El Camino a Casa); Huracán Clare; Nature Boy (digital-only bonus track).


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