115: Ignacio Berroa (Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Tito Puente, Solo Artist)

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Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

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🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Born into a musical family, Ignacio Berroa was a first call session musician in his native Havana, Cuba, before emigrating to the US during the Mariel Boatlift. Shortly after his arrival in NY, Ignacio began a twelve year association with Dizzy Gillespie, which led to gigs with a who's who of jazz and Latin luminaries. Ignacio tells Joe about the advantages of growing up in Cuba; losing his mother at an early age; the agonies of a perfectionist outlook; navigating through marriages and divorces; and his lifelong love of baseball.

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0:00.0	The Trap Set will always be available for free, but we rely on donations from our listeners.
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0:09.2	Subscribe to our show on iTunes, and if you enjoy what you hear, give us a review. This is Joe Wong.
0:27.6	Welcome to the Trapset, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:32.6	I want to play something for you.
0:54.3	You're hearing The Matrix by my guest Ignacio Barrowa.
0:57.8	Born into a musical family in 1953,
1:03.3	Ignacio climbed the ranks in his native Havana to become a first-call session musician.
1:07.4	Upon emigrating to the U.S. during the Mariel Boatlift,
1:10.7	Ignacio immersed himself in the New York jazz scene, quickly earning the coveted
1:12.6	drum throne for Dizzy Gillespie, with whom he had a 12-year association up until the legendary
1:18.1	band leader's death.
1:20.6	Ignacio's fluency not only in Latin music, but in the language of jazz, has led to work with
1:26.5	luminaries such as McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter,
1:29.8	Tito Puente, and Jackie McLean. For the past decade, he's also been active as a band leader. His new
1:36.9	album, Straight Ahead from Havana, is due out later this year.
1:51.3	Music this year. And now my conversation with Ignacio Barroa.
2:11.4	My mom used to turn on the radio every single day and having music all day long.
2:13.2	Was your mother a musician?
2:14.7	Not, not at all.
2:22.7	She was just a music lover and she likes to dance. What did your father do?
2:31.9	My father was a musician. My father, he's a retired musician. He's a violinist. So he used to play for bands in Cuba called Charangas.
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