Edsel Gomez


Edsel Gomez is a Puerto Rican jazz pianist. In 2007, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for the album Cubist Music. He arranged and directed Dee Dee Bridgewater's Grammy-winning recording Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater. He has worked with Jack DeJohnette, Don Byron, Brian Lynch, and Eddie Palmieri.
After a research study promoted by the Philippine Heritage Library and Ayala Museum in Manila, Philippines, he began the Edsel Gomez World Fusion Band, which explores the fusion of Philippine traditional and tribal music with jazz and Afro Caribbean music.

Discography

As leader

  • "Celebrating Chico Buarque de Hollanda" América: Arismar Do Espírit O Santo Cubist Music
  • ''Road to Udaipur''

As sideman

With Freddie Bryant
  • 1999 Boogaloo Brasileiro
  • 2000 Live at Smoke
With David Sánchez
  • 1998 Obsession
  • 2000 Melaza
  • 2001 Travesía
  • 2004 Coral
With Don Byron

1995 " Music For Six Musicians"
  • 2001 You Are #6: More Music for Six Musicians
With Richard Bona
With Conrad Herwig
  • 2004 Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis
  • 2004 Que Viva Coltrane
  • 2006 Sketches of Spain y Mas: The Latin Side of Miles Davis
With Humberto Ramírez
  • 1992 Jazz Project
  • 2007 Humberto Ramírez Presents Smooth Latin Jazz
  • 2008 Trompeta Tropical
With Dee Dee Bridgewater
With Tony Lujan
With others