Bongo icons: the West Coast.(notable percussionists, bongo drum players)

Latin Beat Magazine | November 1, 2003| | Copyright

In 1947, the bongó was added to the west coast big band format when Stan Kenton recruited Jack Constanzo, an autodidactic Sicilian-American bongó player. Constanzo remembers that "literally within weeks of Kenton hiring me, Dizzy Gillespie brought Chano Pozo over from Cuba, but it wasn't a competitive thing." Meaning that Gillespie was looking for the real Cuban yumfa (swing), whereas Kenton simply desired to incorporate the bongó as a charming, exotic effect to his music. After working with Nat King Cole (1949-1953) and traveling to Cuba to improve his martillo abilities, ...

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