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Requiem For A Jazz Man: Jerry González, The Last Pirate Of The Caribbean

Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras shares his last interview with his friend and jazz musician, Jerry González.
<em>Alt.Latino</em> host Felix Contreras interviews jazz musician Jerry González in 2015.

Musician has cut a swashbuckling path in his over four decades of playing music. He was a double threat on both trumpet and congas who came of age in The Bronx learning to play in the time-honored tradition of wood shedding with albums of his heroes. In González's case, it was jazz men and as much as Latin bandleaders and . Gillespie eventually called on González to play congas,

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