Victor Bastidas is a drummer and composer from Colombia, who has studied Jazz and composition in Miami, Chicago and New York and currently lives in Beijing teaching at the Contemporary Music Academy.

His music comprises a blend of styles and textures based on folk music from his native Colombia, as well as the elements of the Jazz language and Contemporary music writting.

Tales of a Latinoamerican Traveler is an album Dedicated to the many destinations, peoples and stories ocurred during the last couple of years in Victors life, it is a celebration of life, a story of a journey that may have never existed in time, to places that might be of a thousand colors, and to our own existance. It was recorded in Chicago by two different ensembless, The Jazz quintet" De Paises Project", and a special guest quintet featuring Reggie Thomas(Count Basie), Adam Larson, Victor Garcia, Andrew Urbina, bassist Clarck Sommers(Kurt Elling) and the New Chicago String Quartet.

As part of the album, is the Suite Madereros deficated to the pictures of Victor's father depicting the culture and influence of the black people in the south Pacific of Colombia, for Jazz quintet and String Quartet.