Conga Alegre

Tito Puente · 1958 · Face B, congas en avant

Context

Top Percussion, recorded in New York on 29 July 1957 and released by RCA Victor in 1958, brings together five percussionists around Tito Puente, including Mongo Santamaría. The album is classified as Afro-Cuban jazz. Mongo Santamaría is among the percussionists.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban. Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Complicación (1958)
• Mambo Gozón (1958)
• Elequana (1958)
• Obatala Yeza (1958)
• Hot Timbales (1958)
• Pa' Los Rumberos (1956)

Sources

• jazzmusicarchives.com

Jazzency text written from these pages. Method and licenses