Jose Madera:
CLASS OF 1965
St. Paul SchoolClass of 1965
New york, NY
Cardinal Hayes High SchoolClass of 1969
Bronx, NY
Jose's Story
Born in New York City and son of Jose "Pin" Madera, who was the first arranger for the Machito Orchestra, Jose spent 31 years with the Tito Puente Orchestra.While there, he served as one of the percussionists and later went on to become one of the musical arrangers and the musical director of the orchestra.He has written many arrangements for countless commercial Latin artists and has recorded or worked with many of them as well.Some of them include Larry Harlow, Johnny Pacheco, Chico O'farill, The LIncoln Center Afro-Cuban jazz orchestra, Celia Cruz, Tito Rodriguez, FaniaAll-Stars, Willie Colon, Joe Farrell, Machito, Graciela, Mario Bauza,Willie Rosario, Earl Klughand Eddie Palmierijust to name a few.Jose has also worked and recorded with many pop, r&band jazz artists. Some of them include Diana Ross, James Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, PaquitoD'Rivera, George Benson and Lionel Hampton among others.Mr. Madera has performed on over 100 recordings. He has worked on severaltelevision show soundtracks, the most re...Expand for more
cent being"The Simpsons" andseveral motion picture soundtracks, the most recent being "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," where he was the musical arranger and conductor for the Tito Puente segment of the film. Jose also taught the art of playing Latin percussion instruments at BOYS HARBOR in New York City for 28 years. He is currently a Latin PercussionCompany endorser/artist and has done and continues to do musical clinics around the country at various schools. He is also the musical director of the Latin Giants of Jazz, a band dedicated to performing new creative latinand latinjazz concepts, as well as some of the music of Machito, Tito Rodriguez and Tito Puente and that is comprised of former members of the Tito Puente Orchestra. Mr. Madera has personally recreated and re-arranged much of the music that those bands performed during the heyday of the mambo at the Palladium Ballroom in New York City, considered by many critics to be the "Greatest and most innovative Era" in the history of Latin music.
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