Chano Pozo

Luciano “Chano” Pozo y Gonzales (*7. January 1915 in Havanna, † 2.12.1948 New York town center) were a singer and Percussionist. With Chano Pozo's Conga - and Bongo - play discovered 1947 Dizzy Gillespie the afrokubanischen roots of the jazz again for the Bebop. Pozo had studied and belonged westAfrican rhythms already in recent years, to Nigerian traditions a maintaining secret federation. It took photographs with Gillespie, George Russell, James Moody, Machito, spleen Jackson, Arsenio Rodríguez and Tadd Dameron. The cholerisch assessed Pozo became in the controversy erstochen.