Roger Davidson

On The Road of Life

For the first recording of his original Klezmer music, Roger Davidson teamed up with trumpeter, bandleader, and “high-priest of New Wave Avant-Klez jazz” Frank London, and an exceptional ensemble, featuring virtuoso clarinetist Andy Statman and master accordionist and cimbalom player Joshua Horowitz. Davidson’s songs draw from his vast reservoir of sources — from Hungarian music and English country dances to tango and Israeli folk music. This is 21st century Klezmer at its best.

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Roger Davidson and Frank London discuss their collaboration on WPR’s “Higher Ground”
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Pensando En Ti

With its dreamy melodicism and throbbing percussion,
the bolero may be the most romantic of all South
American dances. Roger Davidson, the versatile, feverishly prolific composer-pianist, has assembled some of the most outstanding Latin music recording artists to make this album inspired by his love of boleros and rumbas. The group includes Cuban-born, Miami-based drummer Ignacio Berroa, a master of the bolero who among his extensive credits, plays on Charlie Haden’s two recorded salutes to the bolero, Land of the Sun and the Grammy-winning Nocturne; Pernell Saturnino, one of the premiere percussionists in Latin jazz, who has recorded with David Sanchez, Paquito D’Rivera, and Gilberto Gil; David Finck who has been firstcall bassist for Dizzy Gillespie, Ivan Lins, Rosemary Clooney, Glen Campbell, among countless others; Marco Granados, the Grammy-nominated Venezuelan flutist; Kenny Rampton, a New York-based trumpeter who has played in the Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band; Francisco Pancho Navarro, the Argentine guitarist who is a tango specialist with an across-the-board flair for Latin music.

Pensando en Ti presents original boleros and rumbas played by a sizzling first-rate band.