Rebeca Mauleon
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pianist
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, composer
Composer
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, arranger
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and writer
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, specializing in salsa
Salsa music
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and other Latin American and Afro-Caribbean music
Afro-Caribbean music
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.
Career
Mauleón was born in Santa MonicaSanta Mônica
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, California
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in 1962. She began her professional career in her teen years as a performer and recording artist, and worked with many noted musicians in a variety of musical genres. She has written several texts and articles about the history of Latin and Caribbean music, including the critically acclaimed Salsa Guidebook.
Since her early twenties, she has performed and recorded with celebrities in the Latin and jazz music scenes, including Tito Puente
Tito Puente
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, Carlos Santana
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, Cachao, the celebrated conguero
Conga
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Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Armando Peraza
Armando Peraza
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, Giovanni Hidalgo
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, Joe Henderson
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, Sheila E, Steve Winwood
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, Michael Nesmith
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and others, and has made a name for herself as one of very few female band-leaders in Afro-Caribbean jazz.
As a producer, Mauleón has been involved in a wide array of music-related projects, from film and television documentaries to music software companies and instructional DVDs.
Her solo recordings – Round Trip, Latin Fire and Descarga en California – have received international critical acclaim as well as top-ten status on leading Latin music industry charts. She has appeared at numerous prominent national and international music festivals, including the Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Monterey Jazz and San Francisco Jazz Festivals, among others.
As musical director of Mickey Hart
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’s celebrated Planet Drum ensemble, Mauleón has performed throughout the U.S., appearing at Woodstock in 1999 as well as on the Conan O’Brien and Regis and Kathy Lee shows. In 2001 she was the recipient of the prestigious Meet the Composer
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New Residencies Award, one of the nation’s most coveted composition awards, and has also been a Sundance
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Composers fellow.
She is a professor of Latin American, Caribbean and jazz music as well as composition, and has taught at several universities around the world. Also, she has served as a musicological consultant to National Geographic. Mauleón was appointed Director of Education at SFJAZZ in 2011.
Rebeca’s powerful style at the piano and her high-energy musical direction have been dubbed “visceral” (Billboard Magazine), “fiery” (Utne Reader), and critics have lauded her as “one of the hippest band-leaders in Latin music today” (Allmusic).
Selected discography
- Orestes Vilató, It's About Time, RAFCA Records, 2009 (Music Producer, Composer, Arranger)
- Rebeca Mauleón, Descarga en California, Universal, 2006
- Carlos SantanaCarlos SantanaCarlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
, All That I Am, Arista, 2005 - Rebeca Mauleón, Latin Fire, Rumbeca Music, 2004
- Mickey HartMickey HartMickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
, Spirit Into Sound, Grateful Dead Records, 2000 - Mickey HartMickey HartMickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
, Planet Drum: Supralingua, Ryco Disc, 1999 - Rebeca Mauleón, Round Trip, Bembe Records, 1999 (re-issue)
- Steve WinwoodSteve WinwoodStephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
, Junction Seven, Virgin Records, 1997 - José Luis Quintana "ChanguitoChanguitoChanguito is a Cuban percussionist.-Biography:Quintana was born in 1948 in Casablanca, Cuba. As a child he played professionally in bands such as Havana Jazz , with his musician father, and with La Pandilla de los Cabezas de Perros...
" The History of Songo, DCI/Warner, 1996 - Carlos “Patato” Valdez, Ritmo y Candela, Redwood, 1995 (Grammy nominee)
- Karl Perazzo & Raul Rekow, From Afro-Cuban to Rock, LP, 1995 (Video)
- The Machete Ensemble, Machete, Xenophile, 1995
- Tito PuenteTito PuenteTito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...
, Royal ‘T’, Concord Picante, 1993 - Maraca, Formula Uno, Artex, 1993
- Carlos SantanaCarlos SantanaCarlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
, Milagro, Polydor, 1992 - Tito PuenteTito PuenteTito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...
, Goza Mi Timbal, Concord Picante, 1990 (Grammy-winner) - Ray Obiedo, Iguana, Windham Hill Jazz, 1990
- Ray Obiedo, Perfect Crime, Windham Hill Jazz, 1989
- Tito PuenteTito PuenteTito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...
, Salsa Meets Jazz, Concord Picante, 1988 - Pete Escovedo, Mister E, Crossover, 1988
- Tito PuenteTito PuenteTito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...
, Un Poco Loco, Concord Picante, 1987 - Tito PuenteTito PuenteTito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...
, Sheila E, Pete Escovedo, Latin Familia, Lorimar, 1986 (Video) - Machete Ensemble, Africa, Vol. I, Machete, 1986
- Orquesta Batachanga, Mañana Para los Niños, Xenophile, 1983
- Orquesta Batachanga, La Nueva Tradición, Sugarloaf, 1981
Publications
- “Cachao: Eighty Years in the Mambo Kingdom,” Bass Player, March 2008
- “Andy García puts Cuban music in the Spotlight,” JazzTimes, July/August, 2006.
- Muy Caliente, Sher Music Co., 2000.
- "The Roots of Latin Music," GRAMMY Gateway, December, 1999.
- 101 Montunos, Sher Music Co., 1999.
- "Cachao: legado de la música afrocubana," Mix En Español, June 1998.
- The Latin Pianist, Computer Software Program, PG Music, 1997.
- The Latin Real Book, Sher Music Co., 1997. (Co-Editor)
- "The Heart of Salsa: Exploring Afro-Caribbean Piano Styles," Keyboard Magazine, January 1996.
- "ChanguitoChanguitoChanguito is a Cuban percussionist.-Biography:Quintana was born in 1948 in Casablanca, Cuba. As a child he played professionally in bands such as Havana Jazz , with his musician father, and with La Pandilla de los Cabezas de Perros...
's Groove," Modern Drummer, November 1995. - "The Bass Players of Cuba" (Parts I & II), Bass Player, Nov. & Dec., 1995.
- "The Drummers of Cuba," Modern Drummer, June 1994.
- Salsa Guidebook, Sher Music Co., 1993.
- The Piano Stylist, Vol. 7, No. 6, excerpts from Salsa Guidebook, 1992.