Papo Vázquez

Trombonist, composer and arranger Papo Vázquez is 40 year anniversary into a career spanning jazz, Latin, Afro-Caribbean and classical music and recordings.

Beginnings

Vázquez born Angel R. Vazquez, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After spending his early years in Puerto Rico, he grew up in the heart of North Philadelphia's Puerto Rican community. 
At the age of 15, Vázquez was performing with local Latin bands in Philadelphia. At only 17, he moved to New York and was hired to play for trumpet player Chocolate Armentero's.  Soon after, began playing and recording with top artists in the salsa scene like The Fania All-Stars, Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, Larry Harlow, and Hector La Voe. Vázquez became a key player in New York’s burgeoning Latin jazz scene of the late 1970's, He began studying with Slide Hampton, eventually recording and performing for Slide Hampton's World of Trombones.

Vázquez went on to perform with jazz luminaries Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Foster, Mel Lewis,  Hilton Ruiz and to tour Europe with the Ray Charles Orchestra. By the age of 22, Vázquez had traveled the globe.

He was a founding member of Jerry Gonzalez' Fort Apache and Conjunto Libre as well as Puerto Rico’s popular Latin fusion band Batacumbele. Performed and recorded several albums with Batacumbele, from 1981 to 1985. Upon his return to New York, he joined Tito Puente's Latin Jazz Ensemble, traveling with them as principal trombonist, and toured Europe with Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra.

Leader, Composer, Innovator

Vázquez has always been deeply moved by jazz, and specifically cites the music of John Coltrane and J.J. Johnson as having most influenced him. His appreciation and knowledge of the indigenous music of the Caribbean provides him with a unique ability to fuse Afro-Caribbean rhythms, specifically those from Puerto Rico, with freer melodic and harmonic elements of progressive jazz.

During his time in Puerto Rico with Batacumbele during the 1980s, he began to experiment with “bomba jazz,” a mixture of jazz and traditional Puerto Rican bomba. In 1993, he recorded his first album as a leader, Breakout. He continued collaborating with a variety of Latin Jazz artists, contributing Overtime Mambo to Hilton Ruiz’s Manhattan Mambo and Contra Mar y Mareo Descarga Boricua, Vol. 1
Interest in Vázquez as a composer grew. He was the first artist to receive a composer’s commission Iron Jungle for the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, then a resident orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center. 
The same year, through a grant from The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, Vázquez was asked to expand Pirates Troubadours, and was commissioned to compose new music for a 19-piece, Afro-Puerto Rican Jazz Orchestra. The 2008 event was recorded live, resulting in Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Marooned/Aíslado, which received a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album. Vázquez has also shared his compositions with Ruben Blades (Tengan Fe/Antecedente), Hilton Ruiz (Manhattan Mambo) and Dave Valentin (Tropic Heat), among others.


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Past gigs:
2014:
June 13: à la biere comme à al biere (Paris, fr)
June 20: Resto Soleil (Lille, fr)
June 28: Alimentation Generale (Paris, fr)
July 03: Sommersalon St. Pauli (Hamburg, ger)
July 05: Berlin w/La Regla (ger)
July 11: Cirque Electrique (Paris, fr)
July 15: Ocean Case Beach (Anglet, fr) 
July 16: Heteroclito (Guetarry, fr)
July 17: Quicksilver + Bibam café (St Jean de Luz, fr)
July 19: Colours Of Ostrava (Ostrava, cz)
Aug 02: Global Player, Schlachthof Krefeld (Ger)
Aug 08: Fêtes de Sauzet (46, Fr)
Aug 13: Divan Du Monde (Paris, fr)
GIGS SUMMER 2013:
15/06: Festival Trespotz Baleti, Cahors /FR&#13;
21/06: La Java, Paris /FR&#13;
22/06: Pudding Fest, Mont De Marsan /FR&#13;
30/06: Fusion Festival /GER&#13;
03/07: Hamburg /GER&#13;
05/07: Lille /FR&#13;
13/07: Fatshop Cafe, Arzon /FR&#13;
18/07: Strasbourg /FR&#13;
20/07: Chapeau Rouge Prague /CZ&#13;
27/07: Batofar, Paris /FR&#13;
17/08:Streaming: 9PM Paris&#13;
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May, 18: Balance Maman Hors Du train,&#13;
            La Java, Paris, Fance&#13;
May, 27: Sumo bass Temple 3,&#13;
            Fatshop Café, Arzon, France&#13;
May, 31: Madrid, Spain&#13;
Jun, 02: Dynamo/White Club, &#13;
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Jun, 05: Forcalquier, France&#13;
Jun, 08: Grenoble, France&#13;
Jun, 15: BNR Festival, Dresden, Germany&#13;
Jun, 21: De Onderbroek, Nijmegen, Netherlands&#13;
Jun, 22: Djoloff, Lille, France&#13;
Jun, 23: Fete De LaMusique, Lille, France&#13;
Jun, 29: L'Alimentation Generale, &#13;
             Paris, France&#13;
Jul, 06: Strasbourg, France&#13;
Jul, 12: BI NUU, Berlin, Germany,&#13;
            w/ Systema Solar&#13;
Aug, 03: Subterraneo, Bogota w/ Gux Swadharma, La Mercosur and Bleepolar&#13;
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Rocker Roller Rican - A Nuyorican Adventure
El Extreme Luis Chaluisan
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La Gran Orquesta El Extreme Rocker Roller Rican Soundtrack 60 minutes 
Little Otis and The Upsetters Twistin Frat Party  WBGU TV 1984 Artbeat Music Video 6 Minutes 
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Rocker Roller Rican begins with film of Internationally recognized Nuyorican Performer El Extreme L.f. Chaluisan Batlle in October 1975 (a mere three months after he turned professional as a dancer-singer at the age of 17 with the Alliance of Latin Artists in NYC.)
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Directed by: Maria Hernandez
Produced by: Mike Tapp
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Film Directed by: John Coles Talking Wall Pictures 1975
Film Directed by: Tony Ortiz Topproductions NYC 1984
Off Broadway Scenes Directed by: Petronia Paley 2002
Set Design by: Albert Chaluisan
El Extreme Luis Chaluisan
DVD Cover Artwork Vicki Lee

ROCKER ROLLER RICAN SOUNDTRACK
La Gran Orquesta El Extreme 1991
Ray Stingray Sabater
Brian Tully
Steve Gifford
John Caplis
Will Zwink
Mark Giammetei
Paul Decoster
Fred Waite
Kevin Hendrick
Little Otis And The Upsetters 1984
Ras Man Norman 19
Grant Friedrich Drums 20
Phil Berg Saxophone/Flute 23
Stan Middleton Trombone 21
Ron Wagner Bass 27
Billy Hanway Guitar 21
Tim Timbo Seewer Harp 18
Luis Chaluisan 27
Mambo eX 1993
Bubba Faz
Rene Camacho
Planet Lovetron 2012
Juan Almaguer
Automatic Maddox
Billy Stokes
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Tito Puente
La Lupe
David Amram
Nydia Ocasio
Pedro Pietri
Bimbo Rivas
Sissy Gamache
Guy Le Charles Gonzalez
The Fania All-Stars

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