Jerry González performing at Festival de Jazz de Getxo 2010.

Gig Alert: Jerry Gonzáles

Music Hub | Sep 3, 2015

ARTIST: Jerry González

GIG: Thursday night at Blue Note

Music was an early calling for Latin jazz’s Jerry González. Born in New York City in 1949, he grew up surrounded by Harlem’s music scene and a father who sang during Mambo’s golden era. Since then, the six-time Grammy nominated trumpeter/conguero has worked with jazz giants like Dizzy Gillespie, Jaco Pastorius, and Latin jazz's Tito Puento, but it’s with his afro-caribbean jazz group–The Fort Apache Band–that he’s innovated and molded today's Latin jazz.

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