Tata Güines & Friends - Part 2

Tata Güines - "El Fity" (born Federico Aristides Soto y Alejoà June 30, 1930, died February 4, 2008) was a Cuban percussionist on the tumbadora, or conga drum, as well as a composer. He was important in the first generation of Afro-Cuban jazz... Tata was born in Güines, a poor town east of Havana in Matanzas province of Cuba.. He became famous for playing the conga, by the 1950s he was working with such top Cuban musician as Arsenio Rodriguez, Chano Pozo, Bebo Valdes and Israel Lopez.... In the late 1950s he formed a band with the pianist Frank Emilio Flynn, forming a new band, Quinteto Instrumental de Musica Moderna, later known as Los Amigos. Güines moved to New York City in 1957, playing there with great jazz players such as Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, and Miles Davis at Birdland. As a percussionist, he performed with Josephine Baker and Frank Sinatra.... He had a musical career that lasted six decades that helped popularize Afro-Cuban rhythms. Rest in Peace Maestro...