Tony Guerrero

Tony "Ham" Guerrero , actually Antonio Rudy Guerrero (born February 20, 1944 in San Angelo , Texas , † January 29, 2011 in Austin , Texas) was an American trumpeter , flugelhorn player and band leader.

Live and act

Guerrero grew up with his grandparents and had trumpet lessons from the age of nine; later he studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston . In 1968 he became a member of the formation Little Joe (Hernandez) and the Latinaires and then founded his own band Tortilla Factory , with which styles such as jazz , Latin , funk , rock music and other directions combined to create a sound of their own. Guerreros was one of the founders of the Tejano and Chicano horn sounds of the 1960s and 1970s. With the band he recorded over 20 albums and also had a number of hits on the Billboard Top Latin LP charts, such as La Malagueña, Somos Novios, El Papalote and Cuando Vivas Conmigo . Guerrero later worked with a 16-piece salsa band in which his children Cherith, Laura and Alfredo also played ( La Nueva Generacion ). After a break of 23 years, he reunited the Tortilla Factory in 2006 to financially support a sick band member; He also recorded the album All That Jazz with his old band , which received a Grammy nomination. Their album Cookin was also nominated as the best Tejano album . Guerrero died at the end of January 2011 after complications from diabetes .

Tony “Ham” Guerrero should not be confused with the trumpeter and keyboardist of the same name.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary in the Statesman
2. ↑ Obituary at Austindaze ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Tony Guerrero at Allmusic (English)