Jerry González

trumpet, flugelhorn, congas · 1949–2018 · New York

New York trumpeter and conga player, who passed through the bands of Dizzy Gillespie and Eddie Palmieri, he founded the Fort Apache Band with his brother Andy in the early 1980s. Settled in Madrid in 2000 after the film "Calle 54," he died there in 2018.

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Styles

• Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban

Landmark tracks

• Bye-Ya (1988)

Sources

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