Steve Berrios
Steve Berrios (born February 24, 1945 in New York City , † July 25, 2013 there ) was an American percussionist and drummer in the fields of Latin jazz and Cuban jazz.
Career
Steve Berrios was born in Manhattan , NYC, in 1945. His parents are from Puerto Rico and came to the United States in the mid-1920s; his father Steve Berrios Sr. was the drummer of the leading Latin bands of the era, such as Marcelino Guerra , Noro Morales , Miguelito Valdez and Pupi Campo . Steve Jr. first played the trumpet and won several amateur competitions at New York's Apollo Theater . Eventually he switched to drums; his main early influences were Willie Bobo and Julio Collazo , the master of the Batá percussion. At the age of 19 he made his first professional appearances when he became a house drummer in a hotel band in Manhattan; In the late 1960s he became a member of Mongo Santamaría's band , to which he was a member until 1980.
Berrios soon became one of the leading Latin jazz drummers and took part in over 300 recordings during his career; He worked with bands of Afro-Cuban jazz such as Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Joe Panama , Celia Cruz , Milton Cardona , Ray Mantilla , Chico O'Farrill , Hilton Ruiz , but also with modern jazz artists such as David Amram , Michael Brecker , Sonny Fortune , Don Grolnick , Ron Holloway , Kenny Kirkland , Wallace Roney , Grover Washington Jr. , Carla White , Randy Weston and Art Blakey , He was one of the founding members of Jerry Gonzalez's Fort Apache Band and also belonged to the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band ( Que Viva Mingus , 1997) and Max Roach's percussion ensemble M'Boom .
In 1994 he recorded his first album under his own name, First World , on which the singer Freddy Cole was a guest, with his formation Son Bachéte , which included the trumpeter Eddie Henderson , the tenor saxophonist Peter Brainin and the alto saxophonist Joe Ford . A second album followed in 1996, Steve Berrios & Son Bachéche and Then Some! , which was nominated for a Grammy in 1996. Steve Berrios has also appeared on a number of film soundtracks such as Crime and Other Trifles ( Woody Allen , 1989), Mo 'Better Blues (1990) and Jungle Fever (1991) by Spike Lee , the music documentary film Calle 54 (2000) by Fernando Trueba and the feature film El Cantante (2006). Berrios also released the instructional video Latin Rhythms Applied to the Drumset .
Web links
- Literature by and about Steve Berrios in the catalog of the German National Library
- Steve Berrios in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait at All About Jazz
- Entry and discographic information on Allmusic
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- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
- Scott Yanow: Afro-Cuban Jazz . Miller Freeman Books, 2000. ISBN 9780879306199
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berrios, Steve |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 2013 |
| Place of death | New York City |