Craft Recordings, the reissue label of Concord Records, recently announced the reissue of various essential Fania Records albums on vinyl. World Music Central talked to…
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Artist Profiles: Mongo Santamaría
Ramán “Mongo” Santamaria was born in 1922 in Havana’s Jesus María barrio. Originally a violinist as a child, he switched to percussion and dropped out…
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There is a great difference between a drum set drummer playing timbales and an actual timbalero when he plays the timbales. Most drum set drummers…
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