“El Griego Rumbero” — The Latin Jazz Coalition & Demetrios Kastaris

To purchase CDs at $20 each (shipping included), you may:
Zelle to Demetrios Kastaris at 718-343-3113,
Cash App to Hilda Kastaris at 646-642-4753,
Email your information with a brief message including your phone number to d.kastaris@gmail.com,
or mail a check to: Demetrios Kastaris, 42 Garden St., Valley Stream, NY 11581.
CD’s available in the United States and Puerto Rico.

“El Griego Rumbero,” the long-awaited new production by renowned bandleader/trombonist Demetrios Kastaris, celebrates his Latin Jazz Coalition’s forty-year milestone, featuring forty luminaries of Latin music, including Oscar Hernández, Paquito D’Rivera, Steve Turre, and Luisito Quintero.This CD sparkles with splashes of vibrant color, along with nuanced hues, wherever the laser lands. Tracks range from sizzling to soulful, from danceable to deeply moving”. Vicki Solá, host/producer, Que Viva La Música (Mundo Salsa Radio).

  • Oscar Hernández — piano, arranger, musical director

  • Edy Martinez — arranger

  • John Benitez — baby bass, electric, acoustic bass

  • Luisito Quintero — timbales, maracas, guagua (guadua bambú)

  • Marcos A. Torres III — congas

  • Angel Ruben Rodriguez Sr. — bongos, cow bells, chékeres, requinto (high pitched conga)

  • Connie Grossman — flute

  • Alí Bello — violin throughout, violins/viola on “Contigo Aprendí”

  • Demetrios Kastaris — trombone, bass trombone, conch shells, shofar, chékeres, cowbell on bembé – track 2, musical director of Contigo Aprendí and Ancestral Return

  • Noah Bless — trombone

  • Israel Morales Jr. — lead vocals on numbers 8, 10, and 11, coro, soneo, güiro, maracas throughout

  • Luis Rosas — lead vocals on Salsa tunes numbers 3 and 5

  • Janiel Rosado — harmony vocals, coro

Special Guests

  • Paquito D’Rivera — alto saxophone, soprano saxophone

  • Steve Turre — trombone on Trombo-Cubanos-Destacados, and Música Latina, conch shells on Sonero

  • Spiros Exaras — electric guitar on Kalamatianó Medley, fretless nylon string guitar on Ancestral Return, musical director and producer of Kalamatianó Medley

  • Yannis Economides — trumpet solo on Música Latina

  • David Rios — trumpet solo on Cristo Es La Peña De Horeb

  • Alyssa Reit — harp on Contigo Aprendí

  • Juan Diego Villalobos — vibraphone on Contigo Aprendí and Kalamatianó Medley

  • Diego Lopez — drum set on Celebration and Sigue Salvando Vidas

  • Achilles Liarmakopoulos — trombone on Mulence y Yo and Sigue Salvando Vidas

  • Manuel Valera — piano solo on Mulence y Yo, piano: Contigo Aprendí

  • Jennifer Vincent — cello on Contigo Aprendí, acoustic bass and celli on Ancestral Return

  • Megan Gould — violin on Kalamatianó Medley

  • David Silliman — drum set, dumbek. bongos, cowbell on Kalamatianó Medley

  • Cristal Alvarez Abril — coro on Sigue Salvando Vidas

  • Randy Sosa — bongos on Cristo Es La Peña De Horeb

  • Eddiber Figueroa — congas, on Contigo Aprendí

  • Lefteris Bournias — kavalinet, (kaval-clarinet), zurna, Greek klarino on Ancestral Return

  • Joshua Kaye — oud on Ancestral Return

  • The Papastefanou Byzantine Choir — Yanni, Christos, Panagiotis and Xristos on the last four Byzantine songs.

  • Christoforos Eleftheriadis — ison on Cherubic Hymn