Elequana
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 record is classified as Afro-Cuban jazz. First track of the album.
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).