Rodriguez creates compositions rich in musical depth, tone and beauty, as well as rhythm and melody...giving his music an appeal beyond genres. Rodriguez’s trumpet playing is colorful, both hot blooded and pastoral, winsome and charged.

As a bandleader he’s working on a clean, complex and flexible model of modern Latin jazz...Draped over all of it is Mr. Rodriguez’s powerful playing, soft-toned but battling

Rodriguez showcases remarkable chops, the notes flying from his horn in rapid, fluid succession. … Rodriguez needn’t worry about being obscured by his dad’s legacy – he’s an instrumental and compositional powerhouse with creativity and soul to spare.

Rodriguez mines Nuyorican musical veins and jazz lodes, ultimately mixing his finds together to create a form of music that's loyal to both camps yet highly original and completely mutable