CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection includes music manuscripts, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, concert programs, passports, and photographs documenting the ...
Mongo Santamaria, a Cuban conga player and percussionist who arrived in New York at the beginning of the jazz-Latin fusion and was arguably the most popular Latin musician of the 1960s, died Feb. 1 He ...
Mongo Santamaria (congas, bongos); Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); Toots Thielemans (harmonica); Tommy Villarini (trumpet, percussion, cowbell); Doug Harris (tenor sax ...
Afro Blue; Chano Pozo; Yambu; Mongrama; Barandanga; Guaguanco Mania; Para Ti; Las Guajiras; Tenderly; Bacoso; Introduction By "Symphony Sid"; My Sound (congas drum ...
New York - A popular and influential Latin jazz percussionist is dead.Mongo Santamaria died Saturday in a Miami hospital following a stroke. He was 85.Santamaria scored a top-ten hit in 1963 with his ...
Click to open image viewer. A black-and-white photograph of jazz percussionist Mongo Santamaría performing at a concert in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Santamaría sits behind a drum with his right hand raised ...