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Over the past 26 years, drummer Ignacio Berroa has boasted an impressive resume of sideman recording and performance duties with such maestros of the jazz world as Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean and Charlie Haden. His latest release, Codes, is a distinctive jazz-meets-Latin project that weaves the intrinsically stylistic codes of both genres of music. Codes is Berroa's first project recorded as a leader.
Mr. Berroa was born in Havana Cuba on July 8, 1953. Following his father's footsteps he began his musical education as a classical violinist, but his life changed the day he heard albums by Nat King Cole and Glenn Miller. It was then that he realized he wanted to play that music and pursued that dream with a passion, taking his first drum lesson at age 11. He studied at the National School of Arts and subsequently at Havan's National Conservatory, beginning his professional career in 1970. After only a year in New York, Dizzy Gillespie officially invited Ignacio to join his quartet. Later he would also become an integral part of the bands Gillespie assembled during that decade, such as The Dizzy Gillespie's 70th Anniversary Big Band, Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band and the Grammy Award winning United Nations Orchestra.
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