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Ignacio Berroa Now Offering Private Instruction, Workshops and Monthly Concerts at the New Jersey School of Percussion!

It is my pleasure to announce that starting January 2013 , I will begin teaching at the New Jersey School of Percussion, located at  14 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ 07052 I’ll be taking on private students, I will be leading Workshops on Afro Cuban, Jazz and Latin Jazz drumming and will be giving Rhythm section classes as well. The first Workshop will take place on February 17th from 3 to 5pm, followed by a concert given by  the  Ignacio Berroa Trio, featuring Vic Juris on guitar and Bill Moring on bass.  For more information, please contact NJSOP at: (973) 736-3113  email: njsop@aol.com

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Ignacio Berroa Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Montreal Drum Festival

HIS TRIUMPHANT REGAL RETURN The Montréal Drum Fest is proud to announce the return of the king—the great Ignacio Berroa. Let the bells and the banners fly! Nobody forgets how he ignited the crowd last visit. And he’s gotten tighter, slicker, hotter, and more exciting. This is going to be good. At once a veteran and a pioneer, the Cuban-born drummer has been applauded through the years for his facility in combining folkloric rhythms with contemporary jazz and funk. It’s a fiery blend that swings like a mother, grooves like a locomotive, never forgetting old country roots. For a pre Drum Fest taste, Google “Se Le Ve”, a hit track Berroa cut with the Puerto Rican band Batacumbele decades back. [...]

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Ignacio Live, Móstoles Jazz Festival 2010

By Gatillo Dentro de la programación de MóstolesAtodoJAZZ, en su sexta edición, actuó el pasado sábado el cuarteto del batería cubano Ignacio Berroa, que contó con la colaboración especial del saxofonista David Sánchez. En un Teatro del Bosque que registró una gran entrada, los aficionados al jazz pudieron comprobar el alto nivel que atesoran ambos músicos, considerados como grandes exponentes del jazz latino. El concierto, al que asistió Mirina Cortés, Concejal de Educación y Cultura,  fue presentado por Luis Martín,  crítico de jazz del diario ABC.

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Ignacio Sits-In with Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Friends at Bennett Studios

Ignacio Berroa lays down some percussion on the tune “Moor” by Paul Bley. This amazing cut is a haunting tribute to Paul Bley’s free jazz masterpeace and features Ignacio along with Marcus Gilmore on drums , Matt Brewer on Bass and Gonzalo Rubalcaba on Piano.

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Modern Drummer and Blue Note issue “Jazz Drumming Legends”

Track List 1. Horace Silver – Nothing But The Soul (feat. Art Blakey) 2. Art Pepper – Straight Life (feat. Joe Morello) 3. Gene Krupa – Lover 4. John Coltrane – Locomotion (feat. Philly Joe Jones) 5. Elvin Jones – Village Greene 6. Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man (feat. Billy Higgins) 7. John Scofield – So Sue Me (feat. Jack DeJohnette) 8. Tony Williams - Red Mask 9. Robert Glasper Trio – No Worries (feat. Chris “Daddy” Dave) 10. Pat Martino – Dozen Down (feat. Lewis Nash) 11. Bill Stewart – Fano 12. Ignacio Berroa – Woody ‘N’ You 13. Miles Davis – Move (feat. Max Roach) 14. Chick Corea - Matrix (feat. Roy Haynes) 15. The Buddy Rich Big Band – Channel 1 Suite  

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Ignacio Berroa Joins 5Passion!

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Ignacio Lays Down a Groove