
ROLAND GUERRERO
Congas/Percussion
Website: rolandguerrero.com
Tel:(347) 661-5154
Email: rolandguerrero@mac.com
Born in New York,
Roland is a descendant of the Garifuna of Honduras. Roland is an alumnus
of The Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division where he studied
classical percussion under a full scholarship.
In addition to leading
his own groups, as a freelance musician Roland has worked extensively
on the New York music scene in various genres. Roland has toured internationally
with Nigerian superstar Femi Anikulapo Kuti, the son of the legendary
musical pioneer and creator of Afro Beat, Fela as well as recording
with Grammy Award winning rap artist, Andre 3000 of Outkast.
Roland was a member of the orchestra for the National Touring Company
of Walt Disney’s “The Lion King” and has also performed
on network television with NBC’s Saturday Night Live Band and
on CBS in a as part of a tribute to mambo legend Tito Puente in a program
entitled “Sounds of Harlem”, as well as performing, recording,
and touring internationally in the bands of numerous masters of jazz
and latin music, such as Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln
Center Jazz Orchestra (which included a collaboration with Wynton on
some of the percussion orchestrations for his Millenium composition
“All Rise”, performed by the LCJO and The New York Philharmonic),
Chico O’Farrill’s Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra (featured in
the film “Calle 54” by Fernando Trueba), saxophonist Paquito
D’Rivera, trombonist and conch shell master Steve Turre, steel
pan master Andy Narrell, vocalists Jon Lucien, Dee Dee Bridgewater and
Rene Marie, bassists Andy Gonzalez and Charles Fambrough , vibraphonist
Dave Samuels, flutist Dave Valentin, guitarist Hiram Bullock, pianist
Onaje Allen Gumbs and legendary conga master Mongo Santamaria, just
to name a few.
Roland currently
performs with Jon Lucien, The Chico O’Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz
Orchestra and The Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra Septet directed
by Arturo O’Farrill and on occasion with the Lincoln Center Jazz
Orchestra directed by Wynton Marsalis, as well as performing with numerous
other artists.
As an instructor
and lecturer Roland has conducted workshops and master classes in Afro
-Latin hand drumming at the Jazzmobile Jazz Workshop in Harlem, has
been on the staff at the Harlem School of the Arts, the faculty of The
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in Flushing and has been a guest lecturer
at the New School Jazz program at the Parsons School of Design in New
York.
Roland is also an
artist representative for the Latin Percussion Company.
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