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Jerry Gonzalez |
| American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and percussionist (born June 5, 1949 in New York City, New York).
Brother of Andy Gonzalez.
He died at the Hospital Clínico (Madrid) due to smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in his apartment in the Lavapiés neighborhood (Madrid, Spain) on October 1, 2018.
Jerry worked with : Dizzy Gillespie, Jaco Pastorius, McCoy Tyner, Kenny Dorham, Eddie Palmieri (in the group "El Son"), "Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre", in his own groups called "Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache".
Recorded or performed with many jazz artists, including : Dizzy Gillespie, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams, McCoy Tyner, Kenny Dorham, Anthony Braxton, Tito Rodriguez, Ray Barretto, Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Machito. |
| | Review: In the early 1970s, this trumpeter/percussionist apprenticed with such masters as Dizzy Gillespie and Eddie Palmieri, but he's best known for the fiery Latin-meets-Bop stylings of his Fort Apache Band. He frequently covers tunes by Monk and Wayne Shorter, wedding their complex harmonic schemes to his group's clattering, percussion-heavy attack. |
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