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Adam Cruz is an American

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drummer from New York City.

Biography

He is best known for his work with pianist

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, saxophonist Steve Wilson,

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, and pianist Edward Simon. He has also toured and recorded with the

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, saxophonist Chris Potter, guitarist Charlie Hunter, and

Chick Corea Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and " ...

's Origin. Cruz's debut album as a leader was released in 2011 on Sunnyside Records. ''Milestone'' was given favorable reviews by the

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, Downbeat Magazine, and

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. ''

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'' describes the album as "Informed by several strains of Latin music but just as meaningfully by brisk post-bop and lyrically minded free jazz".NYTimes: When the Latin and Jazz Converge June 8, 2011
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Discography

As leader

* ''Milestone'' (Sunnyside, 2011)

As sideman

With

Tom Harrell Tom Harrell (born June 16, 1946) is an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger. Voted Trumpeter of the Year of 2018 by ''Jazz Journalists Association'', Harrell has won awards and grants throughout his career, including mul ...

* ''The Art of Rhythm'' (RCA Victor, 1998) * ''Paradise'' (BMG/Bluebird 2001) * ''Trip'' (HighNote, 2014) * ''Moving Picture'' (HighNote, 2017) * ''Infinity'' (HighNote, 2019) With

* ''Gunslinging Birds'' (Dreyfus, 1995) * ''Live in Time'' (Dreyfus, 1996) * ''Que Viva Mingus!'' (Dreyfus, 1997) With Leon Parker * ''Above & Below'' (Epicure, 1994) * ''Belief'' (Columbia, 1996) * ''Awakening'' (Columbia, 1998) With

* ''Sketches of Dreams'' (Columbia, 1995) * ''Obsesion'' (Columbia, 1998) * ''Melaza'' (Columbia, 2000) * ''Coral'' (Columbia, 2004) * ''Cultural Survival'' (Concord Picante, 2008) With Edward Simon * ''Edward Simon'' (Kokopelli, 1995) * ''Simplicitas'' (Criss Cross, 2005) * ''La Bikina'' (Red, 2011) * ''Venezuelan Suite'' (Sunnyside, 2013) * ''Latin American Songbook'' (Sunnyside, 2016) With others * Ester Andujar, ''Celebrating Cole Porter'' (Omix, 2005) *

Patricia Barber Patricia Barber (born November 8, 1955) is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and pianist. Biography Barber's father Floyd was a jazz saxophonist who played with Bud Freeman and Glenn Miller. She played saxophone and piano from a young a ...

, ''Nightclub'' (Premonition, 2000) *

Ray Barretto Raymundo "Ray" Barretto Pagán (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was an American percussionist and bandleader of Puerto Rican descent. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Lati ...

, ''Standards Rican-ditioned'' (Zoho, 2006) *

Bruce Barth Bruce David Barth (born September 7, 1958) is a jazz pianist, composer, and producer. Early life Barth was born in Pasadena, California, on September 7, 1958. He started to play the piano around the age of five. He had private jazz lessons with ...

, ''Hope Springs Eternal'' (Double-Time, 1998) * Bruce Barth, ''Where Eagles Fly'' (Fresh Sound, 2000) *

David Binney David Binney (born August 2, 1961) is an American alto saxophonist and composer. Early life Binney was born in Miami, Florida, and was raised in Carpinteria, California. From his parents, who loved music, he was exposed to albums by John C ...

, ''Afinidad'' (Red, 2001) * Anthony Branker, ''Dance Music'' (Origin, 2010) * Francesco Cafiso, ''Angelica'' (CAM Jazz, 2009) *

Joey Calderazzo Joseph Dominick Calderazzo (February 27, 1965) is a jazz pianist and brother of musician Gene Calderazzo. He played extensively in bands led by Michael Brecker and Branford Marsalis, and has also led his own bands. Early life Calderazzo was born ...

, ''Going Home'' (Sunnyside, 2015) *

, ''Live at the Blue Note'' (Stretch, 1998) *

Ronnie Cuber Ronald Edward Cuber (December 25, 1941 – October 7, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. He also played in Latin, pop, rock, and blues sessions. In addition to his primary instrument, baritone sax, he played tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet ...

, ''In a New York Minute'' (SteepleChase, 1996) * Paquito D'Rivera, ''A Night in Englewood'' (Messidor, 1994) * Jon Gordon, ''Currents'' (Double-Time, 1998) *

Conrad Herwig Lee Conrad Herwig III (born 1959) is an American jazz trombonist from New York City. Biography Herwig began his career in Clark Terry's band in the early 1980s and has been a featured member in the Joe Henderson Sextet, Tom Harrell's Septet and ...

, ''The Latin Side of John Coltrane'' (Astor Place, 1996) * Klaus Ignatzek, ''Return Voyage'' (Candid, 1994) * Brian Lynch, ''Spheres of Influence'' (Sharp Nine, 1997) *

Herbie Mann Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flute player and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinet (inc ...

, ''America/Brasil'' (Lightyear, 1997) * Herbie Mann, ''65th Birthday Celebration'' (Lightyear, 1997) *

Armando Manzanero Armando Manzanero Canché (7 December 1935 – 28 December 2020) was a Mexican Mayan musician, singer, composer, actor and music producer, widely considered the premier Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era and one of the most successfu ...

, ''El Piano'' (BMG/RCA, 1995) *

Virginia Mayhew Virginia Mayhew (born May 14, 1959, San Francisco, California) is a New York-based saxophonist, composer and bandleader. She has led her own groups for over 25 years, and currently leads several quartets, a quintet, and a septet. Mayhew has worke ...

, ''Nini Green'' (Chiaroscuro, 1997) * Donny McCaslin, ''The Way Through'' (Arabesque, 2003) *

Sam Newsome Sam Newsome (born April 28, 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. His music combines straight-ahead jazz, world music (drawing influences from North Africa and East Asia) and experimental jazz, which uses extended techniq ...

, ''Global Unity'' (Palmetto, 2001) *

Bill O'Connell Bill O'Connell (born August 22, 1953 in New York City) is a jazz pianist, educator, and bandleader. He is most associated with Latin jazz and hard bop. He studied piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, but has mostly lived in NYC or Long ...

, ''Zocalo'' (Savant, 2013) *

Eddie Palmieri Eddie Palmieri (born December 15, 1936) is an American Grammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, musician, and composer of Puerto Rican ancestry. He is the founder of the bands La Perfecta, La Perfecta II, and Harlem River Drive. Early life Pal ...

, ''Arete'' (TropiJazz, 1995) * Eddie Palmieri, ''Vortex'' (TropiJazz, 1996) *

, ''Till Then'' (Verve, 2003) * Dave Pietro, ''The Chakra Suite'' (Challenge, 2008) * Chris Potter, ''Song for Anyone'' (Sunnyside, 2007) * Bruno Raberg, ''Tailwind'' (Red Piano, 2018) * David Virelles, ''Gnosis'' (ECM, 2017) * Steve Wilson, ''Passages'' (Stretch, 2000) * Steve Wilson, ''Soulful Song'' (MAXJAZZ, 2003)

References

External links

Official siteAll About Jazz
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