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Bio/other credits
Javier Navarrette is a professional musician, percussionist, composer, arranger, educator and music producer living in Oakland, California, specializing in Afro-Caribbean / Jazz / Pop music. Javier’s performance and recording career spans over three decades.
He has played and studied with many of the greats in the Pop, Jazz, and Afro-Latin music tradition, such as Aretha Franklin, Los Van Van (Cuba), Bobi Cespedes, Pedrito Martinez and has recorded on three Grammy-nominated albums with John Santos and the Machete Ensemble / Folklorico Kindembo.
Per song credits
- Congas, shakers on “All I Know”
- Congas, shakers on “Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music”
- Congas, shakers on “The Long Haired Kings”
- Shakers on “Down to the Mountain”
Notes
Javier’s tasty sinuous rhythms are threaded through this record, from the opening track to the penultimate number, seamlessly weaving together pop, groove, down home, and righteously soaring.
One of the best days I spent in the studio making this record was playing “Zoo Wolves” live after Javier laid down a shaker track to guide us. His congas then gave us the throbbing pulse to improvise over, me on my electric uke, Robert on his bass, and David on his two-spirited guitar and spellbinding looper rig.
