Chano Pozo’s drums are still awake
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- 01 / 10 / 2010
He was a revolutionary among jazz drummers, as described by the journalist and investigator Ciro Bianchi, and the most outstanding musicians in the genre shivered before the unexpected renovator.
Bianchi asserted that through Chano's drums spoke his grandparents and ancestors, but also spoke his entire island, and that telluric force charged with Cuban identity was what he injected in the North American jazz.
Luciano Pozo Gonzalez, or simply Chano, was born in Havana January 7, 1915, from a very humble family, he devoted the first years of his life to sell newspapers and cleaning shoes, while he learned how to make music banging the leathers of the drum.
It was Rita Montaner, well-known as La Unica (The Only one) who had Chano begin to play professionally in the group of the radio station RHC Cadena Azul and later Miguelito Valdes was able to convince him so that he travelled to the United States, where he showed his catchy rhythm.
In 1942 he joined in Chicago the group Jack Cole Dancers, and in 1947 he scandalizes the world of jazz with the interpretation of his immortal piece Manteca, next to the Big Band of Dizzy Gilliespie and where also shone the pianist John Lewis and the drummer Kenny Clarke.
December 3, 1948, in the Rio Bar of Lennox Street, in Harlem New York, Chano Pozo met death at the hands of Eusebio Muñoz who shot him down personal reasons.
The Cuban sage Don Fernando Ortiz, invited to remember his name, so that he won't be lost in oblivion like many other anonymous artists who have kept the musical art of their genuine Cuban identity for centuries.
Source: ACN
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