Willie Bobo
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Biography
A child of Puerto Rican immigration, Willie Bobo lived in Harlem, where he taught himself percussion. He then joined a children's orchestra led by the maracas player and conductor Machito. Gradually, he joined Latin music groups and settled into an artistic compromise between the Latin music of his origins and jazz. On the one hand, he performed with musicians such as Perez Prado, Tito Puente and Mongo Santamaria; on the other, he took part in sessions with Herbie Mann, Clark Terry, Miles Davis, etc., especially when the latter were looking for a Latin coloring in a musician who also knew the sonorities and constraints of jazz music.
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- Fried Neck Bones And Some Home Fries by Dan the Automator
- Evil Ways
- Spanish Grease
- Boogaloo In Room 802
- Quieres Volver
- Yellow Days
- Psychedelic Blues
- Grazing in the Grass
- It's Not Unusual
- Our Day Will Come
- Granada featuring Ike Quebec
- Blues In The Closet
- Nessa
- Stuff
- Sham Time
- San Antonio Rose by Willie Bobo
- Señorita Eula by Willie Bobo
- The Look of Love
- Guajira
- Lisa
- Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
- Dreams
- Shotgun / Blind Man, Blind Man
- Merci bon dieu featuring Willie Bobo
