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William Cepeda

William Cepeda - trombone, composer, producer William Cepeda comes from a well known family rooted in music. The Familia Cepeda is famous for their performances of folkloric music with African roots, the ‘Bomba,’ and as keepers of traditional Puerto Rican music for many years. The legendary Cepedas’ have produced many of Puerto Rico's most respected Afro-Rican percussionists, singers, dancers, composers and instrumentalists. Now, in William Cepeda, the young multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger who was nurtured by the twin spirits of bomba and bebop, Puerto Rico's potent rhythms and entrancing melodies radiate out to enthrall an international audience hungry for new Latin sounds. Despite his family’s intimate association with folkloric music, as a soloist Cepeda went his own way

Red Hook Records

by Hobart Taylor
December 18, 2024

Celebrating Red Hook Records artists Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers, Andrew Cyrille and others, plus new music from Samara Joy. Playlist Aymée Nuviola Kemuel Roig"Imágenes" from Havana Nocturne (Worldwide) 0:00 William Cepeda" Con El Corazón (Plena)" from The Sound of Puerto Rican Jazz (Casabe) 4:39 Sessa “Canção da Cura" from Estrela Acesa (Self ...

Steve Lehman, Betty Bryant, J.D. Allen and More

by Hobart Taylor
October 16, 2024

This week we feature artists who performed at Los Angeles' Angel City Jazz Festival, Steve Lehman, Kris Davis, Mauricio Morales, Jenny Scheinman and Elsa Nilsson. We also feature new music from saxophonist J.D. Allen, Betty Bryant, and welcome an avant-garde ragtime offering by Welsh pianist Joe Webb.Playlist Steve Lehman Orchestre National de Jazz “Los ...

Wayne Wallace: To Hear From There

by Wilbert Sostre
February 6, 2011

Wayne Wallace continues to explore the infectious Afro-Cuban rhythms on To Here From There, the follow-up to his 2010 Grammy-nominated album, Bien Bien! (Patois Record, 2009).Wallace is a trombonist with vast experience that includes collaborations with artists such as Count Basie, Joe Henderson, Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins and Tito Puente. Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet ...

Unity

By William Cepeda

Label: Casabe Records
Released: 2007

The Extension

By Uli Geissendoerfer

Label: Caracalla
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. The Extension 09:24 2. Wedding Song 05:31 3. Mambo Derivado 06:38 4. New World 09:31 5. Waiting For Galina 05:49 6. No Sweat 05:25 7. Wedding Song - Quartet 06:12 8. Nobody Knows 06:31

My Roots & Beyond

By William Cepeda

Label: Blue Jackel
Released: 1999

Bombazo

By William Cepeda

Label: Blue Jackel
Released: 1999

My Roots and Beyond

By William Cepeda

Label:
Released: 1999

William Cepeda and Afrorican Jazz: My Roots & Beyond

by Eric Saidel
June 1, 1999

William Cepeda is a man with a mission. His goal is aptly given by the title of his cd, his debut as a leader. He wants to introduce us to the music of his roots and beyond. Cepeda takes the rhythms, the dances, of Puerto Rican music, and uses them as the basis for Jazz. As ...