Jimmy Bosch

Jimmy Bosch, also known as El Trombon Criollo ( born October 18, 1959 in Jersey City ) is an American musician of salsa, Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban music of, trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer.

Bosch came from a poor immigrant family from Puerto Rico with eleven children. He played in local bands as a teenager with Latin music ( the merengue band Arcoires in Hoboken ( New Jersey)) and studied classical music at Rutgers University, where he casually began in the band of Manny Oquendo ( Manny Oquendo Y Libre ) to play, to which he remained faithful to twenty years, with interruptions. He also played in the band of Israel Cachao since 1987, where he remained connected in the sequence, with whom he toured and recorded. In the 1980s he played with Ray Barretto and 1996, he founded his own orchestra ( The Masters ). He also tours solo and recorded four albums under his own name.

He also toured with the Fania All Stars, Eddie Palmieri, Ruben Blades, Pete Rodríguez, Perfecta Combination Nacion, Son Del Solar, Celia Cruz, India, Cachao, Machito and others and plays in the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

Discography

• Soneando Trombon, Rykodisc 1998 ( with Chocolate Armenteros, trumpet, and Pete Rodriguez)
• Salsa Dura, Rykodisc 1999
• El Avión de la Salsa, JRGR Records 2004
• ¡ A Million! , JRGR Records 2009