Amazing and Blazing Wendell Rivera Rivera Latin Jazz Ensemble

Buffalo Music Hall Of Fame Inductee Class 2000 Percussionist, Composer, Producer, Band Leader, Educator Wendell Rivera. Rivera, is a leading ambassador of Latin Jazz, an invigorating sound that incorporates Afro-Caribbean grooves with the free, melodic, and harmonic elements of progressive jazz. Rivera’s Latin Jazz Ensemble has been the cornerstone of Latin music in the Western New York/Niagara Falls region for more than two decades from the Lewiston Jazz Festival to the Buffalo Naval Park Little Rock Music Series, Wendall and his band have opened the world to his Latin jazz experience. As a percussionist, he has performed with artists as diverse as Aretha Franklin, Arthuro Sandoval, Ben Vereen, Dave Valentin, Bob Mintzer, John Patitucci, Ralph Irizarry, Yomo Toro, Tito Gomez, Oscar Hernandez, and Humberto Ramirez.
About Wendell Rivera: He is an award-winning percussionist who grew up absorbing the sounds that emanated in and around Ponce, Puerto Rico. Rivera has performed Latin music and Jazz throughout the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. His first link to the music of the island was his grandfather, a performer of the traditional music of the island, the “Bomba and Plena. His self-taught skills and natural abilities on the conga drum quickly brought the caliber of his playing to a professional level. Rivera’s playing caught the ears of some of the tenured professors of Latin Music: Tito Gomez, Joe Rodriguez “La Terrifica”, and Josie Leon, writer/composer and former singer from La Solucion Orchestra.

For over 20-plus years he has performed with artists as diverse as Aretha Franklin, Ben Vereen, Dave Valentin, Bob Mintzer, Ralph Irizarry, Yomo Toro, Humberto Ramirez, Raynaldo George, and Oscar Hernandez.

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