Roberto Juan Rodríguez (Havana) is a Cuban-American jazz musician who is known for fusion of Latin music and Jewish Klezmer elements.[1] Although not Jewish his father's Latin band regularly played at Jewish theatre, weddings and bar mitzvahs in Miami, giving the young percussionist an interest in Jewish music.[2] In the 1980s he moved to New York, recording with Marc Ribot, as the drummer for Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos, and John Zorn.
Discography
- El Danzon de Moises (Tzadik, 2002)
- Baila! Gitano Baila! (Tzadik, 2004)
- with Irving Fields - Oy Vey!!!...Olé!!! (Tzadik, 2006)
- with Maurice El Médioni - Descarga Oriental (Piranha, 2006)
- The First Basket (Tzadik, 2009)
- Aguares: Book of Angels Volume 23 (Tzadik, 2014)
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