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	Drummerworld: Mongo Santamaria
		Mongo Santamaria, an internationally renown percussionist, died on February 1st 2003 at a hospital in Miami.
		Santamaria's propulsive skill as a conguero was a trademark of more than four decades of recording and performing, and punctuates his classic 1963 cover of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man," an unlikely, pre-Beatles hit in 1963 that hit Number Ten on the pop charts.
		Santamaria may be better known in improvisational circles as the writer of "Afro Blue," a beautiful, melodic composition that worked its way into the repertoire of jazz mainstays from Dizzy Gillespie to John Coltrane.
	www.drummerworld.com /drummers/Mongo_Santamaria.html (412 words)

	Congahead.com: Musicians: Departed
		Santamaria is survived by six children, eight grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
		Mongo's body of work is an inspiration to many musicians and his 1963 recording of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" is a tune that will serve as a remembrance of Santamaria's legacy.
		Mongo was also a friend and inspiration of mine, and his influence is part of the reason why I founded Latin Percussion.
	www.congahead.com /Musicians/Departed/santamaria/mongo.htm (280 words)

	MONGO SANTAMARIA / Conga player bridged Afro-Cuban and salsa
		Mongo Santamaria, a Cuban conga player and percussionist who arrived in New York at the beginning of the jazz-Latin fusion and was arguably the most popular Latin musician of the 1960s, died Saturday.
		Santamaria was at the middle of the shift from the Afro-Cuban jazz of the 1950s to the salsa sound of the 1970s.
		Santamaria signed with Columbia and made 10 records in a similar vein, Latinizing jazz tunes or R&B vocal numbers; when he was signed to Atlantic in 1971, he was so inured to the process that he left the decisions about the songs entirely to his musical director, Marty Sheller.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/05/BA199385.DTL (576 words)

	Mongo Santamaría (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		And Mongo suffered severe injuries to his hip and leg, which he almost lost.
		As creative as Mongo was, ironically, it was his version of Herbie Hancock's piece "Watermelon Man" that finally catapulted him to worldwide fame.
		Mongo created other original works with the arrangement support of Marty Sheller and the Colombians Joe Madrid, Justo Almario, and Eddy Martínez including "Para ti," "Montuneando," and "Qué Lindas Son." He was the second Latin American to win the Grammy for his record Amanecer in 1977 (The first was Eddie Palmieri.).
	www.solardelatimba.com /secund_art/eng_mongo.htm (583 words)

	VH1.com : Mongo Santamaria : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		A performer at the Tropicana Club in Havana, Mongo traveled to Mexico City with a dance team in 1948 and then moved to New York City in 1950, where he made his American debut with Pérez Prado and spent six years trading percussive barrages with Tito Puente and performing and recording with Cal Tjader (1957-1960).
		Santamaria's breakthrough into the mass market may have come as a result of a bad night at a Cuban nightclub in the Bronx in 1962.
		The success of Santamaria's cross-pollination of jazz, R&B, and Latin music on "Watermelon Man" and a string of Battle and Riverside albums led to a high-profile contract with Columbia that resulted in a wave of hot, danceable albums between 1965 and 1970.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/santamaria_mongo/bio.jhtml (461 words)

	Mongo Santamaría - 1917-2003
		Fue en Nueva York donde Mongo vivió y ejerció su carrera por cuatro décadas.
		"Mongo es una de las grandes firmas del tambor, un hombre que logró un sonido muy propio, inigualable".
		In 1963 Mongo is at the head of what will become the Latin Jazz group of the future, with piano, bass, percussion and a brass section.
	www.salsapower.com /otro/mongo.htm (1332 words)

	Mongo Santamaria
		Having dropped out of school to pursue the life of a professional musician in Havana, Mongo relocated to Mexico as part of a dance troupe before emigrating to New York in 1950, where he worked with leading Latin ensembles such as those of Perez Prado and Tito Puente.
		After a disagreement with Puente in 1957, Santamaria joined up with vibraphonist Cal Tjader for the next three years, relocating to California where the band recorded a series of albums for Fantasy Records.
		In the 1980s a stronger jazz element become evident in Santamaria's music, with notable jazz musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie occasionally appearing with his band.
	www.nndb.com /people/467/000045332 (423 words)

	Jazz News: A Tribute To Mongo Santamaria
		Mongo Santamaria was born and raised in Havana, Cuba in 1917 and came to the U.S. in the 1950's.
		Mongo can be credited with making the “conga” drum re-emerge in music all over the world, and his contribution is as significant as that of the Beatles who revolutionized modern music in other ways.
		Mongo represents a personification of the courageousness, vivacity and stamina represented by this mythological hero.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=3038 (943 words)

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		Mongo Santamaria, the pioneering Cuban percussionist who was among the most acclaimed exponents of Latin jazz and whose 1963 Top 10 hit "Watermelon Man" stands as a precursor of pop crossover in Latin music, died Saturday at a hospital in the Miami area, where he had retired.
		Santamaria's bands, which included such jazz musicians as Chick Corea and Hubert Laws, "were in large part responsible for the gradual absorption of Latin rhythms into fl music," states the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
		In 1977, Santamaria's "Chango," his 1955 classic of Afro-Cuban ritual drumming, was reissued by Fania on its Vaya label as "Drums and Chants." That same year, he brought the first Grammy to Fania for "Dawn," honored as best Latin recording.
	www.waxmuseum.net /MongoSantamaria.html (1341 words)

	Music: Latin Soul (The Boston Phoenix . 09-11-00)
		What's as interesting is that Mongo was, in the 1950s, the conga player for Cal Tjader, and the two of them set the standard for what might be called Latin soul that's unmatched to this day.
		Born and raised in Cuba, Mongo first came to prominence as a solo artist in 1963, when he rocked the charts with "Watermelon Man," Herbie Hancock's greatest composition, for a small indie label.
		On the recently released Mongo Santamaria's Greatest Hits (Columbia Legacy), you'll see titles of familiar soul hits from the '60s: "Cloud Nine," "Twenty-Five Miles," "Green Onions," even "(Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay." And you may assume that what you'll hear is schlock.
	weeklywire.com /ww/current/boston_music_5.html (642 words)

	Mongo Santamaria R.I.P - CubaMania Cuba Forums
		Santamaria recorded scores of albums in a career that spanned nearly 40 years, mixing rhythm and blues with jazz and hip-swaying conga.
		Master conguero Mongo Santamaria and I sat down one afternoon and recorded a lengthy conversation that began with his telling me how his Mother wanted him to play piano or some other melodic instrument, but of course as he told me andquot;...my inclination was always to percussionandquot;.
		Ramon andquot;Mongoandquot; Santamaria was born in 1922 in Havana, Cuba.
	www.cubamania.com /cuba/showthread.php?t=8497 (834 words)

	Mongo Santamaria: The turning point; part two - musica jazz latina - TA: Latin-jazz music Latin Beat Magazine - Find ...
		Mongo recorded the Tico LP Changó and a few weeks later, Puente recorded his first percussion album Puente In Percussion.
		Mongo took part in several Latin and non-Latin recordings made in the '50s.
		In November, 1957, Bobo and Mongo told Tjader at Birdland they were leaving Puente and they wanted to join his group.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FXV/is_n10_v7/ai_20128320 (925 words)

	Mongo Santamaria (1922 - 2003) - djmixed news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		That was the day Mongo Santamaria concluded his life of eighty-five years after a recent stroke.
		Bandleader was a natural state for Santamaria, and he guided his band through Latin, jazz, RandB, and fusions of the lot.
		Santamaria must have liked the song, for he slid it into his regular repertoire where it captured the attention of producer Orrin Keepnews.
	www.djmixed.com /djmixed/newsandfeatures/article.cfm?Article_ID=2846 (514 words)

	Amazon.com: Afro Roots: Music: Mongo Santamaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Mongo Santamaria is a master percussionist and his playing will move you, it will move you physically and stir your soul!
		I am a Mongo Santamaria fan, I don't think that it was/is even possible for an album of his to be produced that's sub-par.
		This is Mongo straight off the island, still full of his homeland, and absorbing U.S. jazz.
	www.amazon.com /Afro-Roots-Mongo-Santamaria/dp/B000000ZCW (1276 words)

	Mongo Santamaria, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		A Mongo Santamaria concert is a mesmerizing spectacle for both eyes and ears, and even in his seventies, this seemingly ageless Cuban percussionist/bandleader could energize packed behemoth arenas such as the Hollywood Bowl.
		A master conguero, Santamaria at his best creates an incantatory spell rooted in Cuban religious...
		A master conguero, Santamaria at his best creates an incantatory spell rooted in Cuban religious rituals, quietly seating himself before his congas and soloing with total command over the rhythmic spaces between the beats while his band pumps out an endless vamp (a potent example on records is the hypnotic "Mazacote" available on Afro-Roots [Prestige]).
	www.emusic.com /artist/10558/10558631.html (489 words)

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	www.crazybeat.co.uk /Mongo-Santamaria.htm (672 words)

	jazzbrat.com - Mongo Santamaria Dies
		Conga rhythm master Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria died in Miami from the effects of a stroke on February 1, 2003.
		Born in Havana, Cuba, on April 7, 1922, Santamaria first learned the violin, then took up the drums and left school to become a professional musician.
		However, his most famous recording is a 1963 version of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man", which reached the Top 10 on the pop charts.
	www.jazzbrat.com /templates/jpage.php?u_pageid=61 (187 words)

	Mongo Santamaria: Afro American Latin/Greatest Hits - PopMatters Music Review
		With this strategy in mind, Columbia/ Legacy Recordings has started a roots of Latin Music series, emerging with Mongo Santamaria's two titles and a collection of early century music from Cuba as their first three releases.
		Santamaria and company fills these tunes out with Latin beats, phrasings, and instrumentation and expands them to at least four times their original musical size.
		Essentially preparing this album undercover, some of this material was captured on tape in a live performance in Philadelphia; the rest of the album came from studio sessions in 1969.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/s/santamariamongo-greatest.shtml (1098 words)

	Mongo Santamaria: 1917-2003
		Mongo Santamaria enjoyed a long and successful career in Latin music.
		He was born Ramon Santamaria in Cuba, and nicknamed Mongo by his father (the word denotes a tribal chief in Senegal).
		He began learning violin, but quickly switched to drums and then congas, and left school early to work as a musician on the highly active local scene in Havana.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=1044374942 (529 words)

	MEINL PERCUSSION : Mongo Santamaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Ramon “Mongo” Santamaria was without a doubt one of the most respected conga players ever and a pioneer of modern Latin Jazz.
		Mongo Santamaria died at the Baptist Hospital in Miami, USA in February 2003.
		It is with great appreciation and deepest respect that we honour our friend and his life’s work with his MEINL Artist Series Mongo Santamaria Congas.
	www.meinlpercussion.com /index.php?id=267 (320 words)

	Version Latine : mars 2003 (Mongo Santamaria)
		Durant les années 50 Mongo enregistre également une série d’albums de musique traditionnelle afro-cubaine et participe au groupe du vibraphoniste Cal Tjader.
		Après le décès de Chano Pozo, Mongo est devenu le plus important conguero dans les mondes du jazz; par sa générosité et son tallent il a inspiré des centaines de musiciens.
		Après une série de disques comme sideman avec Tjader, Santamaria, Herbie Mann et le saxophoniste ténor Ike Quebec, Bobo entame sa carrière de soliste en 1963.
	www.jazzmagazine.com /versionlatine/Verslatin0303.htm (1078 words)

	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - Mongo Santamaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Cuban-born Mongo Santamaria is one of the most well known percussionists in Latin music.
		He came to the US in the '40s and played in one of the first charanga bands in the States, alongside the likes of Tito Puente and Perez Prado.
		The 1959 album MONGO contained Santamaria's famed composition "Afro Blue", which would become a jazz standard.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/artist.jsp?artistId=77036 (156 words)

	Mongo SantamarIa Latin Beat Magazine - Find Articles
		Mongo se convirtió en profesional entre otros, con el Conjunto Camacho.
		Mongo quedó herido de la cadera y la pierna y abandonado en el sur de los Estados Unidos sin saber inglés.
		El médico dijo: `Ah, yo creía que él era negro'..., y Mongo señaló que el médico "abandonó la sierra y ordenó que me cambiaran de salón y me pusieron en una operación tres tornillos en el tobillo partido y me arreglaron la cadera.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FXV/is_3_13/ai_100543890 (896 words)

	SACD News: Mongo Santamaria & Orchestral Spectacular on Chesky SACD [HFR]
		The new SACDs are Mambo Mongo by Mongo Santamaria and Friends and Orchestral Spectacular by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz conducted by Bernhard Klee.
		The Mongo Santamaria SACD was previously available on Chesky as a Stereo CD while the Orchestral Spectacular album is a new, single inventory Classical Music release available only on SACD.
		Mambo Mongo features latin jazz star Mongo Santamaria and his "friends" which include several well known jazz musicians including flute player Hubert Laws and Dave Valentin.
	www.highfidelityreview.com /news/news.asp?newsnumber=14787996 (638 words)

	Amazon.com: Mongo Introduces La Lupe: Music: Mongo Santamaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		la lupe is a great exotic singer adding rhythm and sabor to the music of mongo santamaria.
		This is Mongo at his very best: lyrical, deep and compelling; hip and sexy; richly textured and complex yet easily accessible.
		Mongo Santamaria is already an essential in the afro-cuban music collector's library.
	www.amazon.com /Mongo-Introduces-Lupe-Santamaria/dp/B000000XU2 (519 words)

	Mambo Mongo Mongo Santamaria And Friends Review By Karl Lozier
		Not simply island music since Santamaria was born in Havana Cuba and lived there for almost thirty years, he continued what the collaboration of Dizzy Gillespie with Chano Pozo started and became known as "Afro-Cuban Jazz".
		As expected, Mongo is clearly heard here playing the Congas, not because he is being highlighted by the recording engineer, Bob Katz, but simply the outstanding clarity and detail of this fine SACD surround sound recording.
		Perhaps surprisingly, Mongo Santamaria is not listed as playing any instruments other than his famous congas.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /Magazine/music/0404/mambo.htm (826 words)

	JazzWeek -- Mongo Santamaria Dies
		Santamaria's biggest hit was his 1963 recording of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man." Hancock, sitting in on piano, played Santamaria the tune at a gig in 1962.
		In 1959, Santamaria wrote "Afro-Blue," which became a standard covered by numerous artists, including John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Abbey Lincoln, and Dianne Reeves.
		Santamaria was based on the west coast with Cal Tjader from 1957 to 1960.
	www.jazzweek.com /news/article/1_000410.html (285 words)

	Mongo Santamaria - Mongo's Greatest Hits \| internet radio on icebergradio.com
		This is a excellent single-disc sampler of what Mongo Santamaria was like before "Watermelon Man" catapulted him into the charts.
		Some of the Fantasy tracks sound like the musicians were just off the boat from Havana, and are a bit primitive in contrast to the brassy Santamaria of the mid- to late '60s, but they have overwhelming charm.
		The revered "Afro-Blue" can be heard in its original, spooky, stripped-down form, and it would be hard for anyone to resist the voodoo spell that the ten-plus minute "Mazacote" conveys.
	www.icebergradio.com /album/146927 (127 words)

	Welcome to Chesky Records: The Premiere Audiophile Record Label
		The late great legendary Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria completed this fabulous Afro-Cuban/ jazz project, Mambo Mongo, at the historic RCA Studio A. Not only is this one of Chesky's earliest recordings, but it was one of the last for Studio A, which closed a few days later.
		Consistent with tradition, Mongo surrounded himself with a tight working band of some of the most talented young musicians of the time, highlighted by noted veteran flutist Hubert Laws and Valentin.
		Using material and instrumentation in a "typical" Latin context, Mongo and friends combine these beautifully arranged comparsas, gua guanco, son montuno, and 6/8 rhythms adding tasteful jazz elements and brilliant solo work that turns "typical" to "spectacular".
	chesky.com /core/details.cfm?productcode=SACD263&productcategoryid=3 (172 words)

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