It was 1967 and, according to Raul Rekow, "everyone in the Bay area of San Francisco was buying a conga and in any park you had 20 or 30 conga players, nobody really knowing how to play. We all would ...
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...
He brought Afro-Cuban influences to American ensembles and dazzled audiences with his virtuosic multiple-drum technique. By Neil Genzlinger “When you talk about percussion, particularly the evolution ...