In addition to being one of Tejano's greatest saxophone players, Joe Posada is the most skillful composer to fuse jazz and Tejano in the '90s. Citing John Coltrane, Jeff Lorber and Alfonso Ramos as influences, his ability to integrate jazz chord progressions and scatting into the polka beat has brought Tejano one step closer to the multi-genre fusion claimed, but not always achieved, by the genre's boosters.
Posada was born in San Antonio in 1954, the same year orchestra leader Isidro Lopez integrated accordions into his ensemble in Alice, Texas, an historic event in the birth of what is now called Tejano music. Raised in the predominantly Hispanic West Side, he began playing the sax at age 12.
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