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Ignacio Berroa Quartet, featuring, Bob Mintzer, Alan Pasqua & Darek Oles at Feinstein's At Vitello's

Courtesy of Keith Johnson | Posted on September 26, 2012

Where

Feinstein's At Vitello's
4349 Tujunga Ave
Studio City, CA
Map
818-769-0905

When

Sat, October 6, 2012
8pm & 9:30pm

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About

Ignacio Berroa has been recognized by many as one of the greatest drummers of our times. He was honored by inclusion in the 2011 Modern Drummer Magazine and Blue Note Records Mp3 entitled “Jazz Drumming Legends”. His contribution to the American music scene have earned him a place among a selected group of artists known to have set new musical trends for the 20th century.

Ignacio Berroa was born in Havana Cuba on July 8 1953.In 1980 he left his country during the Mariel Boatlift, moved to New York and joined Dizzy Gillespie’s quartet in 1981 becoming the drummer of all the important bands Gillespie formed until his death in 1993. Jazz Legend Dizzy Gillespie best defined Ignacio as: “… the only Latin drummer in the world in the history of American music that intimately knows both worlds: his native Afro Cuban music as well as Jazz…”...

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