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Article: Monchito Muñoz: percussionist.(Entrevista)
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- Latin Beat Magazine
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- December 1, 2000
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New York City's Latin music (son, guaracha, rumba) aficionados of the 1930s began their appreciation of Latin music percussionists at the beginning of the 1940s when Chino (not Chano) Pozo came on the scene. Pozo, born in Havana April 10, 1915, arrived in New York City in 1937.
Since then he had performed on bongó, conga and timbal for the orchestras of Machito, Jack Cole Dance Troupe, José Curbelo, Noro Morales, Tito Puente, Tito RodrÃguez, Enric Madriguera, Pérez Prado, Stan Kenton, Herbie Mann, Xavier Cugat, René Touzet and Billy Taylor. During the '40s, his unique percussion skills enabled him to become an invaluable sideman, the ideal type that ...