Roberto Juan Rodríguez (
Havana) is a Cuban-American jazz musician who is known for fusion of
Latin music and Jewish
Klezmer elements.[1] Although not Jewish his father's Latin band regularly played at Jewish theatre, weddings and
bar mitzvahs in
Miami, giving the young percussionist an interest in Jewish music.[2] In the 1980s he moved to New York, recording with
Marc Ribot, as the drummer for Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos, and
John Zorn.
Discography
El Danzon de Moises (Tzadik, 2002)
Baila! Gitano Baila! (Tzadik, 2004)
with
Irving Fields - Oy Vey!!!...Olé!!! (Tzadik, 2006)
^Jonathan L. Friedmann Perspectives on Jewish Music: Secular and Sacred 2009 - Page 32 "It informs Roberto Juan Rodriguez, whose fusion of Cuban and klezmer musical elements create a virtual diaspora — one he describes as a world that could have happened fifty or sixty years ago with a meeting of different diasporas in Cuba, ."