Name Steve Berrios Role Drummer | ||
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Died July 25, 2013, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Albums Live in Time, The Harlem Experiment, Blues & Politics, ¡Que Viva Mingus!, The Essential Mingus Bi Similar People Larry Willis, Steve Novosel, Bobby Watson, Steve Turre, David Sanchez | ||
Music group Mingus Big Band (2013) |
Steve berrios latin jazz master drummer
Steve Berrios (February 24, 1945 – July 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist born in New York, New York, United States.
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- Steve berrios latin jazz master drummer
- Steve berrios and son bacheche first world el nino rey 1994
- Biography
- As leader
- As sideman
- References

Steve berrios and son bacheche first world el nino rey 1994
Biography

Starting out on trumpet while in public school, he was influenced by his father, a professional drummer, and his neighbors in Upper Manhattan: Tito Puente, Willie Bobo and Mongo Santamaria. At 16, he began winning talent and trumpet contests, including the famed Apollo Theatre competitions, in which he placed first no less than five times. Switching his focus to drums and percussion, he started touring and recording with Mongo Santamaria at age 19.

He learned to play batá sacred drums from Julito Collazo. He played conga, djembe, cowbells, marimba, timpani and glockenspiel in Dizzy Gillespie’s band on a good-will tour of Cuba in the 1980s. In 1981, he became a founding member of the milestone Latin jazz group “Jerry González & the Fort Apache Band”. Berrios recorded more than a dozen albums as a member of the Fort Apache Band, including “The River Is Deep” (1982), “Obatala” (1988), “Rumba Para Monk” (1988) “Earthdance” (1990) and “Moliendo Café” (1991). He was also in Max Roach's “M'Boom”, a percussion group that Roach created.

He also led his own group, “Son Bacheche”. “And Then Some!” (1997), one of the few albums he recorded at the head of his own group, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Performance.
Steve Berrios also played and recorded with artists such as Kenny Kirkland, Art Blakey, Tito Puente, Paquito D’Rivera, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Michael Brecker, Grover Washington, Hilton Ruiz and Miriam Makeba.
As leader
As sideman
With Jasmine - featuring Bill O'Connell, Carmen Lundy
With Michael Brecker
With The Harlem Experiment
With Alphonse Mouzon
With Roseanna Vitro
With Randy Weston