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Yerba Buena was a Latin fusion band. The group, active between 2003 and 2009, was founded by Venezuelan musician and producer Andres Levin.. Yerba Buena's music (as described by Razor & Tie, the band's record label) is a blend of Latin music (Cuban rumba, Colombian cumbia, Pan-Caribbean Soca, and Cuban Boogaloo) with hip-hop, Motown, soul, Afrobeat, and a dash of Middle Eastern themes.
The band found steady work at Sweet's Ballroom in Oakland, slipping in pieces of traditional New Orleans jazz into the repertoire until Watters was fired. [3] In 1939, he established the Yerba Buena Jazz Band to revive the New Orleans jazz style of King Oliver, adding trombone player Turk Murphy. [3] [4] (Yerba Buena was the first name of San ...
The band found steady work at Sweet's Ballroom in Oakland, slipping in pieces of traditional New Orleans jazz into the repertoire until Watters was fired. [4] In 1939, he established the Yerba Buena Jazz Band to revive the New Orleans jazz style of King Oliver. [4] [6] (Yerba Buena was the first name of San Francisco.)
Together with Andres Levin, Diamantes founded the band Yerba Buena.The band's debut, President Alien, was nominated for a 2004 Grammy.Yerba Buena has received praise as one of New York's most influential Latin Fusion bands of all time.
Together with Diamantes, Levin formed the band Yerba Buena. Before Yerba Buena, Levin had worked in several disparate genres, including R&B, soul, and Latin. Levin said that the same year the band was founded, he had been in Nigeria, Cuba, and Bahia... [and] those influences combined to form the Yerba Buena sound."
In 1999, after moving to New York, Bueno became a founding member of the Cuban latin fusion band Yerba Buena, writing or co-writing with the founder Andrés Levín from Venezuela many songs for their debut album President Alien. [4] Yerba Buena's tracks have been used in several US movies and Pepsi commercials.
From 1938 to 1940 he played in a big band led by Lu Watters, after which he spent a decade with the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, playing rhythm banjo and, on occasion, drums. [3] He spent almost all of the 1950s singing with Bob Scobey's band. [3] In the 1960s he led his own bands, which also recorded for various labels. [3]
He is a founding member of the band Yerba Buena. They recorded two albums. In 2003, President Alien, and in 2005 their album Island Life was No. 62 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums Chart. He is a member of the Nuevo Jazz Latino program which is a part of Jazz at Lincoln Center. [7] [8] Martinez became leader of the Pedrito Martinez Group in 2005.