CORTIJO

Afro-Cuban Jazz • Puerto Rico
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Cortijo was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, on 11 December 1928. He was a significant figure in the history of Latin music and noted as a percussionist, (timbales, conga, bongo, maracas and other percussion), bandleader and composer Cortijo. He was the musical hero of the common folk of Puerto Rico and Latin America; admired for his qualities as a creative and talented musician. He took the bomba and plena out of the slums and with his all-black band, and introduced them into all levels of society in Puerto Rico and abroad. His early childhood was filled with the sounds of the drumming and singing of pleneros like Cornelio and Maria Teresa. He learned how to make the timbas from them; the barrel drums which he used to entice a young Ismael Rivera to join his descargas at the beach. For the next three decades, these close friends lived a life in read more...
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CORTIJO Encores de Cortijo y su Combo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Encores de Cortijo y su Combo
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1956
CORTIJO Invites You To Dance album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Invites You To Dance
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1958
CORTIJO Baile Con Cortijo Y Su Combo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Baile Con Cortijo Y Su Combo
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1958
CORTIJO Cortijo Y Su Combo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cortijo Y Su Combo
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1960
CORTIJO Cortijo en New York album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cortijo en New York
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1960
CORTIJO Fiesta Boricua album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fiesta Boricua
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1960
CORTIJO Bueno, y qué...? album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bueno, y qué...?
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1961
CORTIJO Quitate de la vía perico album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Quitate de la vía perico
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1961
CORTIJO Sorongo (Que es lo que el blanco tiene de negro?) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sorongo (Que es lo que el blanco tiene de negro?)
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1968
CORTIJO Ahi' Na' Ma' album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ahi' Na' Ma'
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1969
CORTIJO Ritmos y cantos callejeros album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ritmos y cantos callejeros
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1970
CORTIJO Pa' Los Caseríos album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Pa' Los Caseríos
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1971
CORTIJO Y Su Maquina Del Tiempo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Y Su Maquina Del Tiempo
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1973
CORTIJO Con las 7 Potencias album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Con las 7 Potencias
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1974
CORTIJO Dios Los Cria... Vol.2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dios Los Cria... Vol.2
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1976
CORTIJO Caballo De Hierro album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Caballo De Hierro
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1977
CORTIJO Champions album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Champions
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1978
CORTIJO Juntos Otra Vez album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Juntos Otra Vez
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1978
CORTIJO El Sueno del Maestro album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
El Sueno del Maestro
Afro-Cuban Jazz 1980

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CORTIJO 1969-1971: The Ansonia Years album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
1969-1971: The Ansonia Years
Afro-Cuban Jazz 2016

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