CHANO POZO El Tambor De Cuba (Tumbao Cuban Classics) Rating: NNNNN Rating: NNNNN He was known as much for the salacious stories surrounding his death after an all-night Harlem drinking session as for ...

Latin jazz bandleader and congero Poncho Sanchez never met Cuban conga player Chano Pozo, but he did hear his music. Growing up in Los Angeles during the 1950s, Sanchez spent lots of time watching his ...

Team Poncho Sanchez, a conga player from Los Angeles by way of Laredo, with Terence Blanchard, a trumpeter from New Orleans, and the result is music born in New York, Afro-Cuban jazz as developed by ...

When Afro-Cuban musician Mario Bauzá introduced Dizzy Gillespie to Havana-born percussionist Chano Pozo in 1947, it paved the way for the emergence of Latin Jazz. Gillespie didn't know what a conga ...

CONGA PLAYER Chano Pozo didn’t set foot in New York until he was 31 years old, and he wasn’t yet 34 when he died on the floor of a Harlem bar. He didn’t live here long enough to learn to speak English ...

Cuban percussionist Chano Pozo led a musically charmed but violent life. The muscular conga player was raised in the rough-and-tumble black slums of Havana and went on to glory in the gilded concert ...

A concert at Town Hall this week that will be led by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra celebrates the legacies of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Chico O’Farrill. By Ed Morales In the ...

When Cuban funk fire starter Erik Alejandro Iglesias Rodríguez taped an episode of Austin City Limits this May, praise superseded the previous year’s hero worship for Jon Batiste – who topped the 2022 ...

Latin jazz bandleader and congero Poncho Sanchez spent lots of time as a kid watching his older sisters dance the mambo and cha-cha-cha to their Cal Tjader, Tito Puente and Machito records. While they ...

Luciano Pozo, known as Chano Pozo, was a legendary Afro-Cuban conga drummer who helped forge the way for Afro-Cuban jazz and salsa. Host Tavis Smiley speaks with jazz writer Tom Piazza about the newly ...