Happy Monday....happier week.. On many levels, The Conga Kings played authentic Afro-Cuban jazz. For starters, Carlos “Patato” Valdes and Candido Camero have been Afro-Cuban music pioneers for decades. Patato is recognized as one of the first to tune his congas to a song’s dominant chord, which contributes harmony to the song’s melody as well as to the rhythm of a song (noteworthy because on many sessions there was no piano-difficult to carry), and has played with Art Blakey and Dizzy Gillespie. Camero has contributed Latin punctuation to groove sessions by Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, and even Tony Bennett . Partnered with Giovanni Hidalgo, an alumnus of Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra , the combined influence of these three congueros on Latin Jazz has been profound. These three really could be The Conga Kings.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 06:10:19 +0000
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