Eddie Gomez

The surname Gomez has eight entries in Helio Orovio’s Cuban Music from A to Z, non-e of these Eddies, Eds, Edwards, Eduardos, or Edgars. non-etheless, the name Eddie Gomez offers some stature in Latin music, including credits to get a vocalist and percussionist who got part in popular ’50s recordings by bandleader Pérez Prado. Jazz discographers generally observe that these actions occurred when the prolific contemporary jazz bassist Eddie Gomez was still a kid, thus staying away from tacking them onto a summary of documenting credits that finally count had opted well beyond 300. Getting among scant credits concerning maracas in Tom Lord’s Discography of Jazz, the Eddie Gomez through the Prado and Stan Kenton rings is also not really the Eddie Gomez who led and documented a music group of his personal in the next half from the ’50s. The second option Eddie Gomez was in fact from Puerto Rico. For the previous, he could have been from Cuba. What’s generally known and regarded most important relating to his circumstances is normally that he was within a Hollywood documenting studio room in 1956 when Prado, supposedly near the top of his type, slice the Havana 3 A.M. record that has become valued by mambo-iacs.