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Article: WALFREDO DE LOS REYES III: The True Story of a Drumming Legend -- Part 1.
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- Latin Beat Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Born in Havana in 1933, Walfredo De Los Reyes III (better known in the United States as Walfredo Reyes, Sr.) invigorated his native city's percussive scene in the 1950s, when "his drum kit included a timbal, instead of one of the tom-toms, and incorporated two tumbadoras on his left side,"according to his most gifted disciple, the one and only Amadito Valdés Jr. In fact, it has been noted that Walfredo, along with Guillermo "El Coro" Barreto, was one of the first trap drummers who added the tumbadora and bongó to the jazz idiom in the largest Antillean island.
The following interview documents Walfredo Reyes Sr.'s numerous contributions to both Latin jazz and ...
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