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Don Chacal became a specialist in 1968, quickly uncovering himself as a solid percussionist, having worked regularly with excellent instrumentalists. Until 1972 he was the percussionist from the Som Três (César Camargo Mariano, Sabá, and Toninho Pinheiro), also burning Wilson Simonal in a number of national and worldwide trips. In …

The imaginative rhythms of Poncho Sanchez have made him perhaps one of the most influential conga players and percussionists in Afro-Cuban jazz. Furthermore to recording being a soloist, Sanchez continues to be highlighted on albums from the Jazz Crusaders, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Dianne Reeves, Joey …

A Mongo Santamaria concert is really a mesmerizing spectacle for both eye and ears, and also in his seventies, this seemingly ageless Cuban percussionist/bandleader could energize packed behemoth arenas like the Hollywood Dish. A get better at conguero, Santamaria at his greatest produces an incantatory spell rooted in Cuban spiritual …

Influenced by his South Bronx Afro-Cuban root base, percussionist Ray Mantilla increased to prominence in the first ’70s, carrying out with a bunch of prestigious rings, and finally led his have band within the ’80s, the Ray Mantilla Space Train station. All this period Mantilla continued to be active and …