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Healthy mix of GYN and OB. Income is about $280K. Very light ER call. Averaging 35-40 deliveries/month. Call is at least 1:2, maybe 1:4 (one other OB-GYN and two FP's to help) Eastern UT, great community, PERM position, NO Locums. B/E, B/C, MD, DO, or FMG with strong communication skills are acceptable candidates. 2011 Residents and Fellows are also welcome. NO VISA or 2012 candidates at this time. Positions can be private practice with either income guarantee or W-2 salaried hospital employed positions. No husband and wife physician teams - either same or different specialties. All candidates must be residing within the US to be considered. Salary amount, Length of Contract, Relocation Allowance, Signing Bonus, Stipend, Student Loan Repayment, Paid Time Off, CME Time and CME education allowance are negotiable and will be discussed individually. John Chandler firstname.lastname@example.com
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PASIC, Sophia, 99, of Canton, OH, formerly of Steubenville died Saturday at Canton Health Care.
She was born January 9, 1914, in Steubenville. She is the daughter of the late Rade and Lillian Pasic, Sophia is also preceded in death by two brothers, Wallie and Milan.
Surviving are one brother, Ben Pasic of Ft. Lauderdale.
Funeral services will be held 9 a.m. Thursday at the Mosti Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, 4435 Sunset Blvd, Steubenville, Fr. Rade Merick will officiate. Burial at Union Cemetery.

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Sorry, Wall Street. You're stuck with Jack LewJanuary 10, 2013: 8:02 AM ET
President Obama's pick for Treasury Secretary may not be a Wall Streeter's dream, but he's not their worst nightmare either.
FORTUNE -- On the day reports surfaced that Tim Geithner would be nominated for Treasury Secretary back in November 2008, the Dow Jones industrial average surged 494 points. On Wednesday, Obama indicated that he would nominate Jack Lew to replace Geithner. The market shrugged, with most of its modest gains coming before word spread of the Lew nomination.
But at least stocks didn't tank. A number of Wall Streeters have been saying for awhile that Lew, who had been widely rumored to be Obama's top pick for the job, was a bad choice. Lew has very little experience on Wall Street, and none as a regulator. Some said appointing a person unknown to Wall Street would rattle markets.
That didn't happen, but that hasn't stopped the parade of misgivings of Wall Streeters about Lew.
Earlier: Wall Street isn't backing Jack Lew for Treasury
"He's an empty suit," says market strategist James Bianco, who heads up his own Chicago-based research firm. "In Wall Street's mind, Lew is the fifth best choice."
Initially, it seemed that Obama would go out of his way to reconcile with Wall Street bankers, who overwhelmingly supported Mitt Romney, after the election. And Obama has held meetings with top executives and bank CEOs. Lew has even met with JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon.
But by picking Lew, Obama is signaling he won't be bending over backwards to win back Wall Street's support. And depending on where you sit, or more accurately work, you may not view that as a good thing. Wall Street veteran Wilbur Ross, who heads private equity firm WL Ross and was a vocal supporter of Mitt Romney during the election, was quick to note how Lew's lack of Wall Street chops when compared to Geithner.
"While he doesn't have the technical skill of his predecessor, he does know his way around the Hill and Washington," said Ross. "I hope he will prove to be a conciliatory figure."
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Nonetheless, there is some encouraging news for Wall Street. Lew has spent most of his career dealing with Washington's fiscal issues. He's been involved somehow in nearly all of the big budget deals of the past three decades. Strategists and investment bankers say uncertainty around the government's fiscal issues is the main thing holding back stocks and deal making. If Lew can help strike a deal with Republicans before the early March debt ceiling deadline that could be a huge boost to the market.
The question is what happens after that. Lew will have to deal with market regulation eventually. Some compared the Lew pick to former Reagan-era Treasury Secretary James Baker, who like Lew had little market experience but was widely viewed as a success. But the comparison to Baker is imperfect at best.
Thanks to the Dodd-Frank financial reform rules, the Treasury Secretary got a much bigger regulatory role. What's more, the economy is more market driven than it was just three decades ago. In addition, the government has done almost nothing to reform the mortgage market since the financial crisis. Dealing with the government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be key to fixing the housing market.
So while you can dismiss some of Wall Street's complaints as the 1% griping about not getting their way (and indeed that is some of it), that's not all it is. Lew will have to find a way to earn the trust of bankers and high-profile investors. He hasn't done so just yet.
"To be an effective Treasury Secretary you need the confidence of Wall Street and the confidence of the president," says Randal Quarles, a managing director at the Carlyle Group who oversaw market regulation at the Treasury Department during George W. Bush's presidency. "Lew obviously has the second of those. So I think it's a positive choice with a little bit of wait and see."


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Ana is unbelievably helpful, for planning your trip and ensuring you know where everything is and how to get there. She organised a very good value trip for me, with one of the local taxi firms. It was $16 for a tour around the historical centre and a further $25 to El Boqueron. The common areas are 3 comfortable sitting rooms and the staff are all helpful and friendly. The small minus point would be that my room was a bit shabby and the door was quite difficult to lock but I fully rocommend!
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Kalamazoo College's new head women's tennis coach (and director of tennis facilities) is a Kohawk with a Hornet connection.
Mark Murphy joined Kalamazoo College after 11 years as associate head men's and women's tennis coach at his alma mater, Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa). He also had been the assistant director of Coe's Clark Racquet Center since 2005. Murphy played and coached at Coe under Eric Rodgers '79, a Kalamazoo College graduate and member of two of Coach George Acker's NCAA III National Championship teams.
"We are excited to welcome Mark to the Kalamazoo College community," said Kristen Smith, Kalamazoo College's Director of Athletics. "He has extensive coaching experience with nationally ranked teams at Coe, he played under and coached with a "K" alum, and his experience managing tennis facilities ensures that Stowe Stadium and the Markin Racquet Center will continue to operate as the finest collegiate tennis facilities in the country."
In his 11 years as associate head coach at Coe, Murphy helped guide the Kohawks to nine conference team championships (6 men, 3 women), six conference second place finishes (4 men, 2 women), and eight NCAA III Tournament appearances (6 men, 2 women). He has worked with a combined 93 All-Conference selections, 10 ITA/NCAA All-Americans, and eight conference most valuable players.
"I am looking forward to the opportunities at Kalamazoo College," said Murphy. "Kalamazoo has superior academic programs, excellent tennis facilities, and supportive faculty, staff, and alumni. Kalamazoo College has all the necessary components for a national level program."
In addition to his duties at Coe, Murphy has coached at the USTA Competition Training Center in Cedar Rapids, served as chair of the Iowa District Junior Competition, and taught private lessons as a USPTA (United States Professional Tennis Association) certified instructor. He also was voted as the Most Outstanding Contributor to Junior Tennis in Iowa in 2006.
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"I want to create a fun, challenging, and exciting environment for student-athletes to be successful on and off the court," said Murphy. "We expect to be competitive regionally and nationally."
The Kalamazoo College women's tennis team has a long history of success. The Hornets have won 39 MIAA championships, more than double the amount of the next highest total. Kalamazoo finished third in the nation in 1986 and ninth in 1994.
The full-time women's tennis position was created during the summer of 2008 and is funded in part by the Tish Loveless Women's Athletics Endowment. Full-time coaches allow the College to better meet the needs of student-athletes on and off the field. Find out more information on the Tish Loveless Women's Athletics Endowment here.
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Steve Berrios: Latin Jazz Innovator
" I think people that are playing the music we are trying to play are special people and if you don�t respect yourself and carry yourself that way, no one else will. We�re blessed and that�s how we should conduct ourselves and I learned that from Max [Roach] and Art [Blakey]. "
Berrios's first high profile gig was playing with Mongo Santamaria in the late 1960s, and since that time his credits as a sideman are indeed impressive. Berrios has worked with many top musicians including Michael Brecker, Kenny Kirkland, Randy Weston, Hilton Ruiz, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Max Roach's M'Boom, Tito Puente and Paquito D'Rivera.
But for reasons of bias among the music media, Berrios, as well as other musicians who came up in the 1970s including band mates Joe Ford, Carter Jefferson and Larry Willis and others such as Billy Harper, Charles Tolliver and Bunky Green, has remained somewhat under the radar of today's music scene.
It's well-known that when Wynton Marsalis and others of the so-called neo-classical movement emerged, record companies and the music media hyped almost every young player that came on the scene. Meanwhile, musicians such as Berrioswho had paid their dues and developed original voices on their respective instrumentscontinued to make brilliant, groundbreaking music in semi-obscurity.
With a swing feel as greasy as Elvin Jones, a vast knowledge of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, accomplished tympani and marimba work, and even the ability to kick a backbeat, you'd be hard pressed to find another drummer with a more thorough knowledge of the percussive arts. Hopefully many of the musicians such as Berrios, who were developing during the middle age of jazz, are too young to be in the pantheon of the founders of jazz and too old to be darlings of the critics, will ultimately get their due.
- Musical Beginnings
- Following His Father's Footsteps
- Gigging With Mongo
- Julito Collazo, Going To Cuba, and the New York BataÌ Scene
- Learning on the Bandstand
- Rise of the Fort Apache Band
- Lessons from Max and Buhaina
- Larry Willis and Hilton Ruiz
- An Apache Goes Solo
- On Hip-Hop and the Music Biz
- Epilogue
- Following His Father's Footsteps
All About Jazz: So Steve, let's start from the beginning. When and where were you born?
Steve Berrios: Well, I was born here in New York City in 1945 on the west side on 109th Street, but I spent a lot of time at my grandma's house in El Barrio on the east side on 112th Street. At that time a lot of good musicians were living there, Tito Puente, Mongo [Santamaria], Willie Bobo, Joe Cuba, everybody, you name it, Machito, they all lived in that area. You would see them going shopping, walking their kids in strollers. Plus my household was like a meeting ground where a lot of musicians would come by and hang.
AAJ: That was Spanish Harlem right?
SB: Exactly, there was music all over the place.
AAJ: And your parents, they were born in Puerto Rico?
SB: They were born in Puerto Rico and they came here at an early age, around two or three. So they were more like New Yorkers than Puerto Ricans. And my mom never went back, my dad went back to visit after becoming a grown man. I've been there more times than he went.
AAJ: Do you know anything about your relatives in Puerto Rico? Were any of them musical?
SB: I had an uncle that was a merchant seaman, he played guitar and stuff, he was very musical, and my godfather, whose name was Doroteo Garcia, he was a pretty famous singer in the '40s. And my mom had a cousin whose name was Tony Pizarro who was a pretty famous singer in Puerto Rico. All my aunts and uncles sang and danced, so there was always music around the house.
AAJ: So it was definitely in the DNA.
SB: Exactly. And not only Puerto Rican music or whatever you want to call it but it was all kinds of music.
AAJ: So tell me about that. Around the house when you were growing up what kind of stuff did you listen to?
SB: You name it, from European classical music to Machito, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Puerto Rican trios, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, all kinds of stuff.
AAJ: So your parents had a really hip record collection.
SB: Oh yeah, and I used to be the DJ. They would allow me to put the records on, at that time it was 78s. I got exposed to a lot of different kinds of music. Also, every Monday my dad used to take us to the Apollo Theater and every week it was a different show. One week it would be Duke Ellington, next week it would Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers or The Drifters, the next week it would be a gospel show.
AAJ: So you were hearing anything and everything.
SB: Anything and everything, yeah.
AAJ: So where did you go to school when you were growing up?
SB: I went to elementary school here in New York and I graduated from George Washington High School. A lot of good people went to that school like Harry Belafonte and Betty Mabry, who used to be married to Miles, and Ronnie from Ronnettes.
AAJ: Did they have a good music program there?
SB: It was fair, and when I was freshman through a senior I was playing trumpet in the high school band.
AAJ: So you started on trumpet in high school or before that?
SB: I started on trumpet when I was in elementary school. My dad got me a bugle for my birthday, I was like in the 6th grade. And then after that he bought me a trumpet, so from elementary school through high school I was a trumpet player.
AAJ: Didn't you play at the Apollo in the talent shows?
SB: Yeah, I won the amateur contest I think three times in a row. Then they barred us [laughs]. And I can understand, give somebody else a chance.
AAJ: Do you remember what tunes you played?
SB: One time we played "It's Only A Paper Moon, a tune that Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers were doing at the time. And one time we did "A Night In Tunisia, I forgot the other one. It must have been a blues or something.
AAJ: So you were playing "A Night In Tunisia when you were just a kid. Did you solo at all or just play the melody?
SB: Yeah, I soloed. By ear, but I soloed. I kind of regret that I never took up keyboards, I could have learned much more. But most of my stuff was by ear.
AAJ: So when you soloed it was more off the melody of the tune as opposed to the chord changes?
SB: No, I could hear the chord changes, not as well as if I had known the keyboard. I was playing basically by ear. Listening to a lot of records and copying the solos.
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AAJ: So how did you make the transition from trumpet to drums?
SB: To me it wasn't really a transition. My dad had his drums around the house and I used to set them up and mess around with them. So I learned by watching guys and playing along with records, I never took any drum lessons. As long I can remember I used to do that, I used to bang on my moms pots and pans. On the trumpet I had to do a little more study but the drum stuff always came naturally.
AAJ: I should mention that your father was a professional drummer.
SB: Right, and a very good one too. In the early '40s he played with a band led by Marcelino Guerra and made a lot of good records. And I'm proud of him, later on he opted to do those straight club date gigs just to feed his family. I don't think I could be that unselfish. He opted for doing a hip gig for no money to playing sad gigs for the rest of his career just to feed his family.
AAJ: Did your father play trap set or percussion?
SB: It was a mixture of trap set and timbales at the same time, which a lot of society bands where doing. You had to play a little bit of everything. You had to play a polka, then you'd play a cha-cha, a tango, a mixture of everything. I don't know if you've ever heard of Roseland or Arthur Murray or what they sometimes call a rhumba, which is a fast bolero.
AAJ: Yeah, rumba with an "H.
SB: There you go. That was the Fred Astaire era.
AAJ: So it was mainly a dance band?
SB: Yeah, yeah.
AAJ: I guess a lot of the bands were back then. The big bands were mainly for dancing.
SB: Back then there were a lot of bands doing that. That's like a dying art now. I caught the tail end of that so I learned a lot of stuff. I used to play the Catskills, the Concord and a place called Stevensville.
AAJ: Were your first gigs on trumpet?
SB: Yeah, that was with the guy we won the amateur hour with, his name was George Wheeler. He was trying to imitate Art Blakey and I was trying to imitate Lee Morgan on trumpet [laughs]. And after that I got the gig with Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers and I also got a gig playing with Joe Panama around the same time.
AAJ: Those were boogaloo bands, right?
SB: Yeah, it was boogaloo type stuff. Matter of fact, Joe Cuba's band comes out of Joe Panama's band. Joe Panama was a pianist and I think they all mutinied and Joe Cuba took it over.
AAJ: Didn't your father let you take over a steady gig that he had?
SB: Right. He had a steady gig not too far from here on 57th Street. It was a hotel called the Great Northern, and inside that hotel there was a club called the Alameda Room. It was a six night a week gig. There were two bands, a show band and a dance band, and my old man put me on the dance band. I did that gig for like four years straight without ever missing a day. So that was a real learning experience. Some of it I liked and some of it I really didn't like. So then, when my father left the show band to do another gig, he put me on the show band, and I learned a lot. I had to do some reading on that gig. It was a five-piece band, there would be a comedian, a singer, you'd have to cover all that stuff. It wasn't very hip but it was a good experience.
AAJ: How old were you at that time?
SB: I think I was nineteen.
AAJ: That's not a bad gig for a young man.
SB: No, it was great. A six night a week gig wearing a tuxedo every night, I thought I was hot shit! [laughs]. And making decent bread at that time. At least it was steady bread. I only had one night off, it was a Monday. When I was on that gig, on my break I used to run down or take a cab to the Palladium or Birdland to see the real hip stuff, what I was really attracted to.
AAJ: That's a great opportunity. Only in New York, with some real straight-ahead jazz on one side of the street and then some hip Latin shit on the other.
SB: Right! Exactly. So I really ate all that stuff up.
AAJ: Who did you get to hear?
SB: Oh, name it. In one night, let's say I start off at the Palladium. I would see Tito Puente, Machito and Tito Rodriguez and then I'd cross the street and I'd see Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver's quintet or Miles Davis with Trane or Monk's quartet, all within one block, so that was an amazing time.
AAJ: Yeah, definitely. You can't replace that.
SB: No, and I used to see it live and there's no price for that.
AAJ: Did you realize at the time how special that was?
SB: No, not taking it for granted because I was engulfed in it. But I didn't know it was that special as now when it's not there anymore. I feel really blessed to have seen that. I mean its one thing to see that on You Tube but seeing it live, just the vibe of that. You know just seeing the cats hang out and walk into the club, or settin' up, just their body language, guys breakin' a sweat, the stuff gets pretty intense, there's no words to describe that.
AAJ: Do you remember your first record date?
SB: Wow. I think it was with Pucho, playing trumpet.
AAJ: Is there any session from the early days that stands out?
SB: Not really. I've done so many and some I've really forgotten about.
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AAJ: What was the first record date that you remember where you really felt like you were doing something?
SB: I guess it would be with Mongo.
AAJ: Well, why don't we talk about that, how you got that gig and how that materialized.
SB: The reason I got that gig was because on my hotel gig there was a Sunday matinee. So there would be a hip band like Mongo, or a band like that, that would play the matinee. Mongo heard me play and he was having trouble with his drummer at that time. So he asked me would I be interested in doing the gig, and you know what my answer was [laughs]. So I didn't even give two weeks notice. I got somebody else to sub for me, I didn't even get paid my last weeks pay.
AAJ: Well, when opportunity knocks...
SB: Right, I had to jump at the chance. I did that week at the hotel but during the day I was rehearsing with Mongo's band. But I knew most of his stuff 'cause I was a fanatic. I was a big fan of that band, so it wasn't that hard for me to jump in the gig 'cause I knew all the material they were doing at that time. But we rehearsed for about a week at the same time I was doing the hotel gig at night and after that I just left everything there.
AAJ: Who else was in the band at that time?
SB: Well, me and Sonny Fortune joined at the same time, there was a trumpet player named Ray Maldonado, Rodgers Grant on piano and Victor Vanegas on bass. It was a good band. I forgot the other the other saxophone players name, I think it was Maurico Smith. When me, CJ [Carter Jefferson] and Moldonado were in the band that was the trio of doom [laughs].
AAJ: How long was Carter in the band?
SB: Maybe a year or two, then he went with the Jazz Messengers.
AAJ: Do you have any favorite recordings from your time with Mongo?
SB: Man, it's been so long and I haven't really listened to any of those records since that time but maybe Up From The Roots (Atlantic, 1972), Afro-Indio (Vaya, 1975) has a couple of things on there, maybe A La Carte (Vaya, 1976) but I haven't heard those things in so long I can't really judge them. But I dug those records more than the commercial stuff he did.
AAJ: Did you meet Willie Bobo at that time or was it before that?
SB: Willie Bobo met me before I was born. My grandmother and his mom were tight; they used to live on the east side like I told you. So I'm sure Willie saw me in my mom's stomach. And we were pretty tight. He used to come by the house and I used to see him around the neighborhood. He's one of my main influences.
AAJ: What did you find special about his playing?
SB: Just his flexibility, to play authentically in whatever style he was playing. He could play straight ahead jazz and he could play authentic "Latin music and I don't know too many cats like that.
AAJ: Well, there's you.
SB: [laughs]. Well, I got that from Willie. Even in speaking he was extremely bilingual, you couldn't tell if he was African-American, or if he was Afro-Cuban, or Puerto Rican, you know what I mean? I admire that in people, that they can switch and they don't speak with an accent or whatever.
AAJ: Again, I think coming up in New York...
SB: Yeah, that's unique to New York.
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Julito Collazo, Going to Cuba, and the New York BataÌ Scene
AAJ: What about Julito Collazo? I know he was a big influence on you.
SB: Well, he got here I believe in '55. He and Franciso Aguabella came here from Cuba with Katherine Dunham's dance company and my parents took me to see that ballet, and I was extremely inspired by seeing that folkloric stuff. And again my dad knew him, so he used to come by the house, so he knew me since I was ten years old.
AAJ: When did you start hanging out with him and learning about bataÌ drums? [BataÌ are a trio of drums that originated with the Yoruba of Nigeria and are played in Cuba, the US and elsewhere as part of ceremonies of Orisha worship].
SB: All through that time. Just coming up, we used to see each other, I was a late teenager and he was playing with Eddie Palmieri at the time. So in order for me to get in to dance I used to wait backstage and carry his timbales. And he was in Mongo's band playing percussion so we really got tight; we were roommates on the road.
AAJ: You mentioned the folkloric stuff. Was the first time you heard it with Katherine Dunham's dance company?
SB: No. I heard that before I saw the Katherine Dunham Ballet. I had already heard that music.
AAJ: Was that on records?
SB: On records, yeah. There's a record of Katherine Dunham's dance company on some obscure label and my dad had '78s of Los Munequitos de Matanzas. They started in '52, so I think their first record came out in '53. Back in the days before the blockade anything that was fresh out of Cuba was here in New York. Back in that time, from Miami, even with your car, you could take a ferry to Havana. But seeing it live, that was something else.
AAJ: You got to go to Cuba at one time. Was that with Dizzy?
SB: That was with Leon Thomas back in '85. That was a great experience. It was Leon's band and Dizzy's band. We were there for about ten days and I didn't sleep for ten days! [laughs] I caught as much music as I could. I saw Los Van Van, Ritmo Oriental, I even heard an Abakua ceremony but only from the outside. I heard a lot of different bands. When I first got there I hooked up with Changuito [drummer with Los Van Van] and he's a big influence on me, a great player. With Leon I think we did four different gigs, a couple of concerts for the people, and a show at a big opera house (I forget the name). It was a cultural exchange thing, it was really nice. Too bad the people down there don't have anything...just music and rum. You should go before Castro checks out, before it turns into McDonalds and all of that.
AAJ: As far as the folkloric scene in New York, who were some of the other guys learning the bataÌ tradition from Julito?
SB: Well, Julito and Francisco are the first ones responsible for that instrument being in this country. After that, many years later during the Mariel era then it got even more intense. [Mariel refers to the boatlift in 1980 when many Cuban exiles arrived in the US ] Orlando "Puntilla Rios and Alfredo Calvo came here and later those cats brought the sacred Anya drums here. Before that there were no sacred drums. [Anya is a diety believed by devotees of Orisha worship to reside inside sets of consecrated bata drums]
AAJ: Do you have any thoughts on the drum as a spiritual entity?
SB: Oh, definitely. Any percussion instrument has a spiritual vibe to it and I treat them all the same way. Some more than others, but of course. Playing a tambor [religious ceremony] would be the extreme end of it but say someone comes into a club and they're down in the dumps, the music can lift up their spirit. Music is something else man.
AAJ: Who was in Julito's crew, playing with him and learning from him.
SB: Well, almost everybody before 1980. But he only taught a select group of guys because he wanted to maintain the integrity of the religion and the instrument. After Mariel, everybody and their mother could get some inside info for a couple of dollars. Julito had more integrity than to be a sell out. And by the time Mariel came along he had already backed away from playing because in '79 he became a babalawo [priest of Ifa] so he was focusing more on that. But, in my particular crew it was me, "Flaco [Hector Herenandez], Frank Colon, Moreno Tejeda, and "Chachete [Angel Moldonado, leader of Batacumbele]. There were a few guys around...Milton Cardona.
AAJ: Speaking of Milton that reminds me of the Bembe (American Clave, 1987) recording. For me that's kind of a landmark of what was happening on that scene in New York at that time. Would you agree?
SB: Definitely. That was like the mid '80's I think.
AAJ: How did that recording come about? Were you guys playing ceremonies around New York or was it more of a performance ensemble?
SB: A little of both, cause Milton used to do college concerts. So basically the drum crew was me, Flaco and Jose Fernandez. So we just went into the studio and everything was basically one take, even the coro [background chorus]. What you hear on that record is the same group that played a lot of different colleges. I know we did that record in one day. I think it came out pretty good.
AAJ: Yeah, I'd agree. Definitely! So getting back to Mongo I guess you guys did a lot of traveling?
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SB: Oh, yeah. The first time I got on a plane was with Mongo's band. We did a lot of traveling, that was great experience but it's not happening anymore like it was.
AAJ: Well, maybe we could talk about that for a minute. How do you see things being different from that era?
SB: Well, at that time for example let's say we'd go to L.A. and we'd play in a club for like two weeks. You'd get one day off a week and play a matinee or sometimes two matinees. So just to settle in a club for two weeks, you know it's a great feeling. It allows the band to grow, playing every night a couple of sets a night, that's no comparison to rehearsing.
AAJ: It's inspiring to know that there was enough demand for the music that you could have matinees and shows at night.
SB: Right. And what was great about matinees was that children that were underage could come and see the music. When I was a youngster my mother would take me to Birdland and we would sit in the "Peanut Gallery" which was a section specifically set aside for young people. Now everything is like concerts where you lose the vibe from the musician to the audience or vice versa.
AAJ: It feels kind of sterile?
SB: Yeah, in big concerts you play for an hour-and-a-half, you say 'bye and that's it. It doesn't have any meaning like it used to. It used to be someone sitting really close to the bandstand and feeling that vibe. It doesn't happen much anymore. That's why I like playing in clubs 'cause you get the vibe from the people. The youth now they never get to experience that feeling, it's a drag.
AAJ: I guess you could say that about the jam sessions too. They're not really around like they used to be.
SB: Right. Before, jam sessions were where you learned how to play your instrument. There was so much competition you had to be good or it would inspire you to be better.
AAJ: Those were the days before Berklee. The jam sessions were the Berklee.
SB: Right. Exactly. Or playing five or six nights in a clubthat was the Berklee. Now everything is so homogenized in the classroom. To me you can't separate the living aspect or the social aspect from the music. You can't separate the music from the living part of the musician. Like right now, I'm talking to you on the phone but I'm still a musician, you know despite that we're doing an interview. You're a musician twenty four hours a day, not just when you're on the bandstand. So when you put it in a sterile classroom that gets lost.
AAJ: Do you think that reflects on some of the younger musicians? A lot of them have come up through academic training.
SB: Sure, and you can hear it in the music. It's nice and proper and correct and the theory part of the music is fine and they're all great musicians; they can read fly shit and all of that, but there's something missing. It doesn't touch my heart. It's not real. It's like flippin' hamburgers or something. Playing music is like being married, you gotta fall in love or out of love and your old lady might to leave you; it's part of life.
AAJ: Right, and you can't replace that with a classroom.
SB: Yeah, there's certain things you have to really live and that make you mature. You have to go on a gig and not get paid, all that stuff builds character. You gotta pay some dues. If you just go to a big time music school and you graduate it doesn't mean anything without paying some dues.
AAJ: Well, that said are there any younger cats out there that you feel are saying something?
SB: There's a lot of talented musicians out there and now with all the new technology you can learn much faster but you can tell if a guy knows how to play the blues or if he's read the blues. I saw a Miles Davis interview where he was studying at Julliard and the teacher said, "Black people play the blues because they were downtrodden and sad and Miles said, "Look, my daddy's rich and my mother's good looking and I can play the blues. That made a lot of sense to me because he lived it. Miles was a little rich boy but he opted to cancel Julliard to go hang out with Bird; that makes all the sense in the world to me. Those clichés don't work, you know, all black people got rhythm, silly stuff like that, it's just stupid.
AAJ: I guess the real laboratory would be Minton's and 52nd Street.
SB: Sure. And all the jam sessions and stuff like that. That was the real school.
AAJ: I feel like the '70s was a vital time for jazz. A lot of people write it off as the "fusion era but guys like yourself, Billy Harper, Stanley Cowell and Charles Tolliver were making some great music.
SB: Those are some great cats and they got wiped out. And it was done so deliberately. If you compare the young lions of that era with the young lions of today there's no comparison. Technically they're cool and they're all vegetarians now but in the music there's no butter in it, no gravy. I prefer a cat not having all the technical knowledge of music per se but if you touch me, if you move me, that's what counts, as opposed to a guy who can play a trumpet concerto on the first set and on the second set play a blues. That doesn't impress me. A lot of cats can't read a note but play with feeling. You can't buy that at a college, it's intangible, you have to be born with that.
AAJ: When you were with Mongo did you do other sessions and gigs when you weren't on the road?
SB: Yeah, when I was home I did a lot of sessions at that time when I was off from Mongo's band. It was a good era.
AAJ: Was any of that Fania stuff? Salsa records, those kind of session?
SB: Yeah, any time they needed a drummer I would be the cat with Fania records. I did a lot of those dates, with Larry Harlow, Willie Colon, you know things like that and with other smaller little groups.
AAJ: We talked about you being from New York City and the bilingual thing, being fluent in jazz and Afro-Caribbean music. Do you feel like you've been pigeonholed as the "Latin guy, or whatever, and you maybe could've gotten more straight-ahead jazz gigs but you do more in the Afro-Cuban idiom?
SB: You know, that's a good question. I get pigeonholed on both ends. The vibe I get from other people is either I'm not Latin enough or I'm not jazzy enough. So I'm really caught in the middle with a lot of stuff and sometimes it's cool, sometimes I can deal with it, sometimes I can't. It's a weird situation.
AAJ: They haven't heard Fort Apache? Obviously you're fluent in either idiom.
SB: Right, that's the only place where I feel super comfortable, where I can do whatever I want, just because of the nature of that music.
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AAJ: Let's talk about that. How did the Fort Apache Band get started?
SB: Well, I first met Jerry and Andy [Gonzalez] when I was playing in Mongo's band. When I was out on the road, Monguito [Mongo's son] used to stay at my crib and Jerry and Andy would come by and hang and check out my record collection. It was definitely when I wasn't there 'cause a lot of my records got stolen! [laughs]. But, we didn't really start to hang together until I left Mongo's band in '80 -'81, somewhere around there. I wasn't doing that much and about two blocks away from here, where I live right now, there was a club called Soundscape. Jerry was having jam sessions I think on a Thursday night and whole bunch of cats started coming around, which was during the Mariel era so Puntilla, Daniel Ponce, Igancio Berroa, a lot of those cats were coming around. So that's how that developed. Then Jerry decided to form a band, a big band, and then we went to Berlin, I think it was, but it was a thousand guys [laughs].
AAJ: That was when you did The River Is Deep (Enja, 1982) and those records when you had vocals, trombone, a timbalero, guitar...
SB: Right, it was a million guys. So we huddled and said if we want to make some money we've got to cut this band down. So it turned into a quintet and eliminated a lot of unnecessary stuff, well not unnecessary, but we just dwindled it down to the core of what the band was trying to do. And it really worked out, the first record we did wasRumba Para Monk (Sunnyside, 1989) and I think that's a classic record. The group was Carter [Jefferson], Larry [Willis] Jerry, Andy and myself. Then we added Joe Ford, I wish he would've been on the first one. That was a good record. Since then it's always been five or six pieces.
AAJ: I know Jerry's name is on the band but you're an elder to Jerry and Andy and I've always felt that you've had as much influence on that band as the Gonzalez brothers.
SB: Oh, I know so, and not patting myself on the back but more influence then they have. It's just because of politics, either they take the credit or it's been heaped on them but if anybody knows anything about music, they know why certain things are the way they are in that band. I think I've been a major influence on that band. Not I think, I know.
AAJ: What would that be? What elements did you bring in?
SB: Well before I was in the band they made a record called Ya Yo Me Cure (Sunnyside, 1980) and they never went to 4/4 straight ahead jazz swing, so I brought that in.
AAJ: What about the folkloric rhythms? I think Fort Apache might be the first band, at least out of New York or North America, that utilized rumba and other Afro-Cuban folkloric rhythms.
SB: Oh, I think so, yeah. But I can't take all the credit for that they were doing some of that before I joined the band but I just kept it up, so we're still doing that but there's only two of us playing percussion so it's a little different than if you have a whole rhythm section but we keep that element in there.
AAJ: Do you feel like you found your voice within that context?
SB: I'm still looking for my voice.
AAJ: Yeah, but you definitely have a sound.
SB: Well, you can tell if it's me playing on record or not. But I'm still searching for different things. I don't play the way I did on the Monk record. I don't play like that anymore, thank God. You don't want to play the same way you did twenty years ago. I'm still searching and looking for different ways to do things but if you don't have a place where you can expound on things it's a drag. It's sad to say but there's not that much work for a band like Fort Apache.
AAJ: Why do you think that is?
SB: Because of the powers that be. And the music is too honest and raw. It can't be controlled. They'd rather have something a little more watered down and then they can dictate what to do and what to play and who should be on the record, stuff like that. It's a drag; it doesn't allow the music to grow. At one point, when we were really busy we influenced a lot of other groups to play in that vein but then it just dwindled out. I don't hear it anymore.
AAJ: Who were some of the bands you might have influenced.
SB: Lemme see. David Sanchez, Danilo Perez, the pianist that's with Wayne [Shorter] now, even Ray Barretto, Eddie Palmieri and Tito Puente. I think Fort Apache are like the unsung heroes, though most people who are in the know, know who's who when it comes to talking about Latin jazz.
AAJ: What do you think is unique about Fort Apache?
SB: Well, the versatility and authenticity of our playing is pretty special. I haven't really heard anybody else do it.
AAJ: Yeah, a friend of mine here in [Washington] D.C. says, "Fort Apache doesn't play Latin jazz, they play jazz Latin.
SB: Okay, that's a good way of putting it. I understand what he's saying. Nobody can say, "Oh, these Spanish guys are trying to play some be-bop, or, "These American guys are trying to play some claveÌ stuff and I think that's exclusive to New York. I've heard some bands from the West Coast and it sounds like the West Coast, and it's cool, if you like that kind of stuff. I think we're a little more knowledgeable about the two languages, which are basically the same; it's just another way of making rice and beans.
AAJ: One thing about Fort Apache is you, Larry and Andy do a lot of unique turnarounds in the music. Was that something you consciously worked on, or was it just something that came out on the gig?
SB: It just happened from being on the gig. We never talked about it and we still don't talk about it, it just happens. We follow each other, whoever initiates where we wanna go, that's where we go. Sometimes we stumble but that's part of the music. It keeps it honest and it keeps it fresh. That's what's unique about that band; we can go in a lot of different places. A lot of cats say, "Man, you cats must rehearse cause you guys are so tight. We rehearsed once, for that Monk record, two days to make that record and that was it. Everything else is just on the gig.
AAJ: One thing that's unique about your style is that you've applied some bataÌ rhythms onto the drum set.
SB: Right, sometime I apply some bataÌ stuff and it makes it sound different on the drum set. Sometime when me and Jerry are doing drum solos we play a couple of bataÌ rhythms, "Tui-Tui and "Sheshe Kururu, but people don't know what they are and especially on congas and drums it's sounds brand new but there's nothing new under the sun. Even when we're playing the rumba stuff, I'm playing gua-gua on the bells and Jerry's playing five drums and it sounds different from a regular rumba rhythm section, but we're playing basically the same parts with a little embellishment.
That's another thing with the Apaches, most Latin jazz bands are playing a mambo with jazz melodies on top of the rhythm. What we do is play rumba with jazz melodies, that makes it a little different. And mambo's cool for back then, but we've taken it where it should be taken, if not, we could stay back in 1955. It's cool, I still like some music from 1955. I like music from 1945. I'm sure if Bird or Trane were alive they wouldn't be playing the way that they played before they died. Even take Miles, a lot of people said he sold out but I can understand why he wouldn't play the way he played with Tony [Williams] and Wayne [Shorter] and them later in his career. He'd rather sacrifice himself in order for the music to grow, that's pretty romantic to me.
AAJ: Took a lot of courage too.
SB: Exactly. To sacrifice himself just for the sake of the music, that's so loving.
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Lessons from Max and Buhaina
AAJ: Let's talk about M'Boom. How was it working with Max Roach?
SB: That was another one of my learning experiences. When Freddie Waits passed away, Joe Chambers gave me a call. Ray Mantilla couldn't make a concert and they also needed to fill the space for Freddie Waits. So I got the call, made a couple of rehearsals and fell right in. Between playing percussion and playing the drum set I added a little more than what Freddie was doing because he didn't know anything about Latin hand percussion, so I was like two guys in one.
AAJ: With that band you were playing everything tympani, marimba...
SB: Glockenspiel. It gave me the opportunity to learn parts on all those different instruments. Every tune we had to rotate, that was part of the rules.
AAJ: Did Max write all of the music?
SB: He wrote some. He wrote a lot of the good stuff in the band but my favorite composer was Joe Chambers, and also Omar Clay had some interesting tunes.
AAJ: Joe Chambers is kind of underrated as a composer.
SB: Another underrated cat. He's a great composer and a great pianist. He's a good guy, we're pretty tight.
AAJ: That's one of your current gig right.
SB: Yeah, that's another great experience because when he's playing drums I'm playing percussion and when he plays vibes I play the drum set. So it gives me a lot of leeway to do what I like to do.
AAJ: In light of Max's recent passing why don't you talk his influence on jazz drumming and jazz music in general.
SB: Well Max was one of the most important drummers on the bebop scene. He invented most of that language. Again getting back to everybody gets something from somebody else, he got a lot from Klook [Kenny Clarke] and Papa Joe Jones. But he compiled it and made it his own and you can tell...there's certain licks that any drummer that plays jazz will have to know that came from Max Roach. Also, he put the drum set out in front.
Most people look at the drummer as an ignorant timekeeper that doesn't know anything about music or forms, but he dispelled that false rumor. A drummer has to be as intelligent as the horn players or more intelligent. I don't care who the leader of the band is once the tune is counted off the drummer is the leader of the band. The drummer controls the dynamics, the tempo, the feel of the music, everything, and that's a big responsibility. A horn player, they can play the head, play a solo, and then they can be off at the bar. But we have to stay there throughout and maintain that intensity. So Max had a lot of integrity and commanded respect.
I think people that are playing the music we are trying to play are special people, and if you don't respect yourself and carry yourself that way, no one else will. You know, "Oh yeah, just another drummer, a jazz cat. No, it's just the opposite, we're like royalty. We're blessed and that's how we should conduct ourselves and I learned that from Max and Art [Blakey]. We have to treat each other for what we are, because not everyone can do what we do.
AAJ: That's true. Unfortunately a lot of people look at us and say they "play they don't work.
SB: Right, if you call a plumber to fix your bathroom you gotta pay him. But with us we're just having fun and there's a lot of chicks around and drugs and drinking. So we're just playing, having fun and we have dispel that myth 'cause it's not true. We gotta pay our rent just like everybody else does. Send kids to college; pay the mortgage, car notes. Why should we get paid less than minimum wage 'cause people think we're having fun, you know what I mean?
AAJ: I couldn't agree more. Think of all the hours spent developing your craft.
SB: Right, and it's not like, well, I'm gonna study two hours a day. It's a non-stop learning process. I can relate anything I do to music. Think about watching a guy pitch in a baseball game, how he winds up, I can relate that to music. Or a good boxer, his body language, the way he moves. Or a good cook, I can relate that to the colors in a tune.
AAJ: Unfortunately, I think for the average person music is just something they put on to have in the back round.
SB: Right. But if you take music away from the average person, any kind of music, they'd go crazy. Take anything related to the arts, take it away from a person that's ignorant and they couldn't handle it. You know, "Can you play something? It's so quiet in here.
AAJ: Do you think the arts are what has kept us from blowing up this planet?
SB: Exactly. We keep those fools in check and basically it's not their fault. They don't realize they need it even though they do.
AAJ: Art Blakey was another big influence on you and another great drummer you got to work with.
SB: Well, God bless him. Before I met him, I heard him on records with a percussionist named Sabu Martinez who was good friend of my dads. They did a couple of '78s of drum stuff called Safari or something like that on Blue Note. So I heard that stuff as a young kid. Then when I was playing trumpet I met Art's son, Art Jr. (we used to call him Sonny) he played drums. And we got tight and I played trumpet with him for awhile. He would take me by his father's house and I was delighted and in awe just to be around him and checking him out. He was a sweetheart, a nice friendly guy. He dug the young cats and he would school you, but without sitting you down and saying, "This is the way you do it son, but just by assimilation.
He was one of the best band leaders I've ever met. He made you feel like you were needed but he also pushed you to be independent. He made his sidemen feel like they were just as important as the leader. He always used to tell the Messengers, "Don't get too comfortable, this is not the Post Office. Some of the cats would think, this is a good gig, I'm gonna be here for awhile. He never wanted that. There's a record he did Live At Birdland (Blue Note, 1954) with Clifford Brown, Horace Silver and Lou Donaldson and there's a quote where Bu says, "When these guys get too old I'm gonna get some younger ones. He was very intelligent, he knew about politics, all kinds of stuff.
AAJ: Then you hooked up him again later on.
SB: I wasn't working at the time, he didn't know that, but I went to see the band down in the Village, and he said, "Hey man, what are you doing, and I told him things were kind of light and I wasn't doing anything and he said, "Well come with me let's go to Paris. I said, "What? Okay. [laughs] He didn't ask me, he said, "You're coming with me. He was like a father figure, you can't say no, I'm not going. And a situation like that, how would you not go with Art Blakey to Paris? I didn't even ask if he was gonna pay me, it wasn't about that. He paid for everything just like a vacation. So that turned into me being the road manager for about a year. I had never done that before. I was responsible for paying all the cats, checking them into airports and hotels, giving them wake up calls. I really learned a lot.
AAJ: Did you run into any guys running you ragged, like being late all the time?
SB: No, 'cause that would be on them. I'd tell them it's a seven o'clock call, if not, it's on you. I didn't baby sit anybody.
AAJ: Who was on the band at that time?
SB: Mulgrew Miller, Donald Brown, and later Benny Green on piano. Peter Washington on bass. Terrance Blanchard and then Wallace Roney on trumpet. John Toussaint and Javon Jackson on tenor, Donald Harrison and Kenny Garrett on alto and Tim Williams on trombone.
AAJ: What time period was that?
SB: I think it was '84. Also, sometimes I'd play percussion on the gig and I'd play drums on "The Theme, when Art would introduce the band. I rehearsed the band sometimes too but when Art would play, they would sound like completely different tunes [laughs]. It was a great experience.
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AAJ: Can you talk about Larry Willis? It seems like you guys have a special relationship.
SB: Larry and I grew up together. When we were teenagers we used to play in little bands together. He's my senior by about two or three years and I used to hang out in his neighborhood, around 154th and 8th Avenue. I used to hang there a lot, I wasn't from there but everybody thought I was; Al Foster's from that neighborhood. But we have some ESP happening though we don't really talk about it or anything.
AAJ: Did you recommend him for the Apaches?
SB: No, he started hanging around us at the same time, and I knew Larry well so it was no problem, it worked out great. Since then, Jerry should be grateful that all these cats have hung in throughout the years.
AAJ: Larry seems like he's another bilingual cat.
SB: Right, exactly, because he lived that era too. He would go to the Palladium and Birdland at the same time I was doing it.
AAJ: When he plays so called Latin music he sounds really unique to me.
SB: Sure, that's what makes the Apache Band what it is, 'cause he's not playing standard montunos, which is great in a Salsa band but if you hint at that, which is the way the Apaches play, it opens it up more. You get a better feeling than having it locked up like on a Salsa gig. We're still playing in claveÌ and playing the authentic beats but the piano players role is more open than if you were playing on a Salsa gig.
AAJ: Yeah, to me he sounds like Herbie Hancock playing over a Latin rhythm section.
SB: There you go. And that's done deliberately too. Those are little subtleties that only musicians would appreciate.
AAJ: Another pianist you've worked with a lot is Hilton Ruiz
SB: Well, he was much younger than me, 'cause I think he was only fifty-four when he died. We never hung much until the mid-to-late '70s. but we hit it off great 'cause he was a real be-bopper, a real jazz cat. His forte wasn't the Latin side of the shit, though much later he joined Tito Puente's band. It was great playing with him; we did a lot of records and tours together. He was a talented cat, may he rest in peace.
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AAJ: You did a couple of albums as a solo artist. Can you talk about how that came about?
SB: That's when our manager/producer at the time [Todd Barkan] who recorded the Apaches during that period approached me after we did two records, because on the Apache records I do all the percussion overdubs.
AAJ: Jerry doesn't hang around in the studio for that?
SB: No. [laughs]. I do it all, and I do most of the mixing too. Then Todd Barkan asked me if I'd be interested in doing a record. I said of course, and I was surprised. I thought, no one is gonna ask me to do a record. Then he said do whatever you want to do. So I had no limitations on the music I wanted to do or the players I wanted to have.
My first record First World (Milestone, 1995) was more like a biography of all the different things that have influenced me and I think it came out pretty good, it's a little different. It's a small group but it sounds big. It's only five people, at the most, playing together at the same time. On the second one And Then Some (Milestone, 1996), I did most of the overdubbing, either percussion or singing or whatever, and surprisingly enough that one was nominated for a Grammy. That record had even less musicians. I liked them both for different reasons.
AAJ: What would those be?
SB: On the second one I had to do more work, I had to do all of it. Some of it sounds a little sloppy 'cause it was rushed, of course after the first one the budget got smaller and it still got nominated for a Grammy. I don't know if that's good or bad [laughs].
AAJ: Well, I guess it's good to know that somebody was listening.
SB: Well, I don't even know about that, I don't know if that's how you get nominated. But both of those records made some noise for a little while. Also, there where two poems that were supposed to be on the second one. There's a poet named Felipe Luciano and...you've heard those right?
AAJ: Yeah, I thought those turned out nice, especially "Madness.
SB: Well, the Fantasy company panicked when they heard those. They refused to put them on the record; they thought they were too controversial. So the record sounds incomplete to me 'cause I was hearing it with those two tunes. The way I was gonna program it, the album would've made more sense. At the same time they were recording some hip-hoppers at the same studio in Berklee where I did all the overdubs. I know where there coming from...but since then no one has offered to record me anymore.
AAJ: Yeah, that's too bad. I think the first record is one of the most versatile records I've heard. Someone with a command of all those idioms, you have the hard-bop stuff, the rumba stuff, Palo tunes.
SB: Well, like I said that was like my musical biography. That's all the stuff I've been influenced by and all the stuff that I do.
AAJ: How did you pick the sidemen for those records?
SB: I just picked all the guys that I wanted to work with and I deliberately left out Andy and Jerry, not because they weren't qualified, but for it not to sound like the Fort Apache Band or for them to take credit for my influences. And they didn't understand that at the time, they felt like they were slighted, but what can I say? Everybody's gotta do what they gotta do. But I deliberately made that decision because I thought people were gonna say, "Aha, I knew Jerry and Andy taught him everything he knows. But I think both of those records have some valid music on them.
AAJ: Most definitely. You mentioned overdubbing in the studio. How do you approach that if you're going to do a multi percussion piece? How do you decide what you're going to lay down first?
SB: It depends on the tune. Like on the rumba tunes I always start with the claveÌ. On the first record in the studio I had the bassist, the lead singer and the tres player, that was what we laid down. So, on all those rumba tracks it was basically claveÌ, bass and the lead singer.
AAJ: What about the solo track "Talkin' To Myself ? There's a lot of stuff going on in that and it's all you.
SB: On that one I started with an ostinato on floor toms, and then I laid down the tympani and after that the trap set.
AAJ: Do you hear everything in your head before you lay in down?
SB: Yeah, I heard all that stuff in my head and then I just layered it. I like doing that stuff. It makes things pretty easy because I know what to play on the initial tracks, and what not to play, so I don't step on myself.
AAJ: You also did a version of "Lonely Woman, combined with a Lukumi chant for Yemaya.
SB: The way I laid that was with the bataÌs and the lead singer, then I laid down the tympani, then the bassist came in and then we put the horns on top of that.
AAJ: How did you decide to combine those two tunes?
SB: That's an Ornette Coleman tune. When I first heard it was on his record The Shape Of Jazz To Come (Atlantic, 1960). It always reminded me...it almost has an identical melody to the tune for Yemaya, "Acolona. So I said, "Wow, I think these two tunes would fit. I like that track because I think it has a haunting vibe to it. I'm happy with that one.
AAJ: Around the time you did your solo records you also worked with Chico O'Farrill's big band.
SB: We did a record at that time called Pure Emotion (Milestone, 1995) I thought that was a hip record.
AAJ: How is it different playing with a big band as opposed to a small group?
SB: You have to put yourself in another head. It's a little more rigid than playing with a quintet or something. That was my first big band experience. I've listened to big bands a lot but that was my first time actually playing with one. So I dug that, especially with Chico, may he rest in peace; he was beautiful man, a great arranger.
AAJ: Prior to your solo records you did an instructional video Latin Rhythms Applied To The Drum Set (Alchemy Video, 1992). I've always liked it because it has kind of a loose format.
SB: Well, that's usually my approach in general. Because Mark can't play like Steve and Steve can't play like Mark. I can give you pointers, a direction, to get you to sound more like you. Playing the music that we're playing but...You know, as opposed toit must be done this way and you have to use matched grip, etc. To me that's not music, because music is personal but it's also impersonal.
You need to leave cats room to find their own voice. If you're gonna imitate every little beat I play, why? For what? What's the purpose of that? When I see some of those videos you're talking about I don't really get anything out of them, maybe because of my approach to life and music in general. A lot of people who are used to a stricter format when they see a video like the one I did they say, "This cat doesn't know what he's doing. I feel sorry for them, because they may never reach their potential.
AAJ: Right you can't sum up a whole style of music in a couple of "beats.
SB: Or in one video. It doesn't go that way. It's a whole life experience; it never stops, so people look at music in that way. It goes back to what we were talking about before, that people think we don't work we "play. But if you play mallets in a symphony orchestra, then that's "serious music, because you have a tux on and you stand real stiff and then you turn a page, and then you wait twenty thousand bars, do another little roll, wait another twenty thousand bars then that's serious music. And on top of that, the funny part about it, is when you take the music away from them they can't play anything. They don't improvise, everything they play was written down five hundred years ago, and some of it is good, but it was meant to be improvised.
AAJ: Yeah, they say Bach improvised on his fugues.
SB: Right. Yeah, but now they just play everything note for note and some of it sounds stale and boring.
AAJ: Not to mention, the composers is really the artist in that situation. The musicians are more like interpreters, they don't put there soul on the line like a jazz musician does.
SB: Right. Yeah, it's weird.
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AAJ: So what do you think of current state of the music biz? Is it just as corrupt as it's always been?
SB: Yeah, it's still corrupt. It's even gone up a couple of notches since I first started out. But getting beat is getting beat. For instance all the hip-hoppers now get tons of money, deliberately, to keep the music ignorant.
AAJ: Do you think they even realize that?
SB: No, they have no idea. They're so confused they call themselves musicians. That's a joke; that shows you how confused they are. All they got is all this bling and diamonds, but their not saying anything, and they give them all this money to keep the masses ignorant. Because at first when hip-hop came out there were a couple of groups that were saying things that were relevant but they wiped them out. So all you see is this little nonsense now and there's no music happening. And also when they wiped music programs out of the public schools that's how hip-hop came about, because the kids had no instruments, so music has gone backwards thirty or forty years.
I think it's a drag, they should have more music in the schools. But can you imagine those hip-hoppers singing or reciting those same songs, if you want to call them songs, thirty years from now? It's crazy. And not to pat myself on the back, but I think any of the tunes I recorded on my two records, you could play them thirty years from now and they would still be valid. So that makes a difference. I mean, Duke Ellington and all that stuff, it still sounds great today.
AAJ: Well he was a consummate musician, as you well know.
SB: Exactly, he was a musician not a rapper. And I'm not against rappers because that's an old tradition too, you know the African griots, the oral tradition, I respect that. But it has to mean something, you gotta say something. You know James Baldwin, Langston Hughes those were some bad cats. Even in our stuff, the bata, that's a language we're not just making stuff up, it's already set. It's an oral tradition that's been passed down over hundreds of years.
AAJ: And that's a testament to people who came over here through the Middle Passage and were able to hold on to that. Maybe the rappers should take that into consideration.
SB: Yeah, but they can't they're blindfolded. They're pawns, they're being used.
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AAJ: If you were able to have a dream session and put together any group of cats for a recording who would get?
SB: It depends on what kind of music. On my second album I was gonna do a duet piece with Max. He agreed and we were gonna do a drum set duet, but it never materialized. Another thing, I've always had a dream of Elvin Jones and Los Munequitos playing together. I know it would've worked. To have the Munequitos play a rumba and then Elvin play on top, I know that would've been hip. Not that Elvin would have to play authentic rumba beats, but just the way he played, along with what they did, that would've been a motherfucker.
AAJ: What kind of music do you like to listen to for inspiration?
SB: Anything old, like old Blue Note stuff. Sometimes I get in the mood where I don't even listen to any music for awhile. When I want to put something on I either put on something new like Cuban Timba or old Blue Notes or Impulse records for the jazz stuff. I like a lot of Miles, Miles and Gil Evans, that kind of stuff. I don't listen to too much percussion stuff, I like more quiet stuff. I like Brazilian music. Sometimes I put some drum oriented stuff on but usually I like more lyrical stuff just to cool me out.
Selected Discography
Jerry Gonzalez/The Fort Apache Band, Rumba Buhaina (Random Chance, 2005)
Larry Willis, Sanctuary (Mapleshade, 2003)
Bill O'Connell Latin Jazz Project, Black Sand (Random Chance, 2001)
Mongo Santamaria, Skin On Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology (Rhino, 1999)
Sonny Fortune, In The Spirit Of John Coltrane (Shanachie, 1999)
Mingus Big Band, Que Viva Mingus (Dreyfus, 1997)
Steve Berrios/Son Bacheche, And Then Some (Milestone, 1996)
Jerry Gonzalez/The Fort Apache Band, Fire Dance: Live At Blues Alley (Milestone, 1996)
Steve Berrios/Son Bacheche, First World (Milestone, 1995)
Chico O'Farrill, Pure Emotion (Milestone, 1995)
Eddie Henderson, Dark Shadows (Milestone, 1995)
Various Artists, Calle 54 (Miramax Entertainment, 1993) (DVD)
Steve Berrios, Latin Rhythms Applied To The Drum Set (Alchemy Pictures, 1992) (Instructional DVD)
Hilton Ruiz, Manhattan Mambo (Telarc, 1992)
Papo Vazquez, Breakout (Timeless, 1992)
Jerry Gonzalez/The Fort Apache Band, Moliendo Café (Sunnyside, 1991)
Charles Fambrough, The Proper Angle (CTI, 1991)
Jerry Gonzalez/The Fort Apache Band, Earthdance (Sunnyside, 1990)
Michael Brecker, Now You See it...Now You Don't (GRP, 1990)
Milton Cardona, Bembe (American Clave, 1987)
Ray Mantilla, Synergy (Red Records, 1986)
Jerry Gonzalez/The Fort Apache Band, The River Is Deep (Enja, 1982)
Mongo Santamaria/Dizzy Gillespie/Toots Thielemans, Summertime (Pablo, 1981)
Randy Weston, Carnival (Arista, 1975)
Mongo Santamaria, Mongo At Montreux (Atlantic, 1971)
Photo Credits
Bottom Photo: Michael Wilderman
All Other Photos: Courtesy of Steve Berrios at MySpace


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