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Latin Percussion (LP) mini-bio and photo of the widely-renowned, highly-sought conga drummer, Giovanni Hidalgo.

Mini-bio and photo by LP (Latin Percussion)

List of one listener's favorite congueros (conga drummers) from Cuban, Puerto Rican, and other Caribbean / Latin-American cultures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIhgEC_YEyI

Wacław Zimpel, Paweł Posteremczak, Ksawery Wójciński, Paweł Szpura - Hera The Vandermark 5 - The Horse Jumps/The Ship Is Gone Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell - The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra - Ashcan Rantings Jason Ajemian & Daydream Full Lifestyles - Protest Heaven AMM - Sounding Music Harris Eisenstadt - Woodblock Prints Jean-Marc Foltz, Matt Turner & Bill Carrothers - To The Moon Angles - Epileptical West/Live In Coimbra Nobu Stowe - Confusion Bleue Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love - Milwaukee Volume Kirk Knuffke - Amnesia Brown Mural - Nectars Of Emergence Andreas Schmidt, Samuel Rohrer, Thomas Heberer - Pieces For A Husky Puzzle

Playing with microtiming is a remarkable feature of musical rhythm in the Western Sudan. Both African and Western musicians and musicologists have time and again wondered at the capability of Malian, Senegambian or Guinean drummers to excitingly place not

A photoblog of drummers, singers, and dancers from Conakry, Guinea, West Africa. Phenonmenal

avivalaviva's blogpost on imeem re: mongo santamaria, master conga drummer (conguero) and musician

Awesome! Elegant, incredible, beautiful choreographed West African drum and dance performance.

Crisp, clean, clear...and absolutely TIGHT. Outstanding musicality...Famoudou en sesiones de Hamana Mandenkono...solista toca djembe y kenkeni al mismo tiempo....

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Dave Douglas - Trumpet, Adam Benjamin - Rhodes, Gene Lake - Drums. Marcus Strickland - Saxophones, Brad Joes - Bass, DJ Olive - Turntables. Moonshine, the newest album from trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' Grammy-nominated band Keystone, is an album that moves musical genres forward into uncharted territory. The evolutionary/revolutionary aspect is found in the vibrant alchemy between Douglas' avant-garde leaning compositions, the relentless, polyrhythmic funk of drummer Gene Lake and bassist Brad Jones, the Sun-Ra-esque sonics of Adam Benjamin who plays a highly modulated Fender Rhodes and the post-post blowing of the front line featuring Douglas and saxophonist Marcus Strickland. But what puts this one over the top is the true integration of a DJ, in this case DJ Olive, into the constantly shifting improvisations of a cutting edge band. Rolling Stone called Keystone's 2005's self titled album, "a modernist requiem." Moonshine takes it a step further: a modernist recipe for the future sound of electronics, jazz, and new composition. "I think of it as Green Beat," says Douglas with a grin, referring to the organic way that the rhythms of vinyl, laptop, and drum set coalesce in this infectious, grooving new album. One forgets all the elements that go into this hybrid music, as each piece amounts to a masterpiece of modern jazz-informed composition and performance. There are many details buried in these tracks, and perhaps the most remarkable thing is that the basis for this recording was a single performance in front of a live studio audience. The state-of-the-art mutli-track recording of this session makes possible a hybrid of the best parts of studio isolation and live excitement. It allowed Greenleaf Music to raise to the highest level the post-production of these recordings.