Mongo Santamaria - Mongo Santamaria`s Greatest Hits 1970

Artist: Mongo Santamaria

Album: Mongo Santamaria`s Greatest Hits
Year Of Release: 1970
Label: Columbia
Country: USA

Side One:
1 Watermelon Man
2 Cloud Nine
3 Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
4 We Got Latin Soul
5 Fatback
6 Twenty-Five Miles

Side Two:
7 Cold Sweat

8 Green Onions

9 The Now Generation

10 La Bamba

Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría (April 7, 1917 in Havana, Cuba – February 1, 2003) was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1950 he moved to New York where he played with Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Fania All Stars, etc. He was an integral figure in the fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms with R&B and soul, paving the way for the boogaloo era of the late 1960s. His 1963 hit rendition of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.

 

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