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 ...

To properly attempt to write a profile on such a colorful and significant character as Chano Pozo, we must go to Africa, where it all began. The Niger River Delta, in the Africa Bend, more ...

Latin jazz conguero Poncho Sanchez marks his life's events by music, food and family. "My mother was a great cook who made arroz y frijoles (rice and beans) and homemade tortillas everyday," he says. ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Among some of Chano Pozo’s many compositions and collaborations in his all too short lifetime, (he was killed in 1948 in a bar fight in Harlem, just shy of his 34th birthday) he co-wrote the great ...

It was in Chano Pozo's Harlem apartment in September 1947 that Dizzy Gillespie met Cuba's greatest percussionist, newly arrived from Havana. By the end of the month, Pozo was adding his conga drum to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...