Courtesy of Spiradic Productions Cuban jazz drummer Diego “Mofeta” Iborra pass away at 84 last month. You never know who some of Miami Beach’s golden oldies are or might have been in their younger years, unless of course they reach into their wallet from time to time and pull out old black and white photographs of themselves posing in big bands with the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie. The late Diego “Mofeta” Iborra was such a man. Born in the Cuban countryside in 1919 and raised by a professional flautist father in Havana, the drummer was inspired to take New York by storm as a young adult in the 1940s. His audacity in asking to jam alongside Dizzy helped to change the tempo of one of America’s greatest musical genres. “My father happened to be a very loving and compassionate man, so it was easy for him to go and meet people in the jazz world,” says Mofeta’s son Frank Iborra. “He was very unassuming and they just took him under the fold.” ...
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Courtesy of Spiradic Productions Cuban jazz drummer Diego “Mofeta” Iborra pass away at 84 last month. You never know who some of Miami Beach’s golden oldies are or might have been in their younger years, unless of course they reach into their wallet from time to time and pull out old black and white photographs of themselves posing in big bands with the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie. The late Diego “Mofeta” Iborra was such a man. Born in the Cuban countryside in 1919 and raised by a professional flautist father in Havana, the drummer was inspired to take New York by storm as a young adult in the 1940s. His audacity in asking to jam alongside Dizzy helped to change the tempo of one of America’s greatest musical genres. “My father happened to be a very loving and compassionate man, so it was easy for him to go and meet people in the jazz world,” says Mofeta’s son Frank Iborra. “He was very unassuming and they just took him under the fold.” ...