In the fall of 1947, Dizzy Gillespie called on his friend, the trumpeter-arranger Mario Bauza, in search of a conga player for an upcoming Carnegie Hall concert where he planned to debut songs exploring the connection between Afro-Cuban music and jazz.Bauza suggested Chano Pozo, a swaggering master of Yoruba rhythms, who had just arrived from Cuba.
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