Bass Player: Jairo Moreno

From Moreno’s own website:

Jairo Moreno is an Associate Professor of Music, Faculty Associate in the Latin American and Latinx Studies Programme and member of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania, having previously taught at Duke and N.Y.U.

Awards include the Society for American Music 2005 Irving Lowens Article Award for Best Article (“Bauza-Gillespie-Latin-Jazz), Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (Yale), ACLS Fellowship (2009-2010), and National Humanities Center Fellowship (2012-2013). He received the David and Janet Brooks Distinguished Teaching Award (Duke University) and the Golden Dozen Teaching Award (New York University). He has advised and currently advises doctoral projects across music and sound studies (musicology, music theory, sound studies, and ethnomusicology). A former professional musician, he was bassist in five Grammy Award nominated recordings with the late Latin and Jazz percussionist Ray Barretto (Blue Note, EMI-France, Concord, Fania labels – 1989-1997), with whom he also performed with musicians such as Stanley Turrentine, David “Fathead” Newman, Arturo Sandoval, and Chick Corea, among many others. He appeared in numerous other recordings and performed chamber music with guitarist David Starobin and the Ciompi String Quartet.

The attached transcription is Moreno’s bass part for the Steve Slagle tune ‘Triangle’ from the 1991 Ray Barretto album, ‘Handprints’.