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Papo Vazquez and his Mighty Pirates Troubadours

Susan Gentile-Hackett, Neighbor

Papo Vazquez and his Mighty Pirates Troubadours ensemble is the foremost progenitor of the distinctively swinging sound that can best be described as Afro-Puerto Rican Jazz music that finds its rhythmic impetus in the bomba and plena forms native to the United States Caribbean Islands where the Philadelphia-born National Endowment for the Arts Latino Master Award - winning trombonist spent much of his youth. --- New York City Jazz record magazine (2012). www.suffolktheater.com.


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