He then recorded for Robinson's Enjoy! Records, his first release for the label being the similarly minimalistic "Love Rap" (on which he was accompanied on Congas by his brother Pooche Costello), issued on the B-side of the Treacherous Three's "New Rap Language" (on which he also featured), leading to his early nickname of 'The Love Rapper'.
Redys was the accordion player, with Al Widmar on bass or fiddle, John Beradino on conga or maracas, and Satchel Paige on snare drum.
In Paul de Barros’ Jackson Street After Hours (Sasquatch Books, 1993) Ernestine Anderson is quoted: “Gerald Brashear’s conga-playing was no small part of the act. Brashear had taught himself to play the style of Dizzy’s Cuban drummer, Chano Pozo. Buddy Catlett says Brashear ’played like a Cuban’, he was that good.”
Congas and Bongos are essential to all kinds of Latin American music, especially that of the Caribbean and South American regions, used in both folklore (Punta, Santeria, Rumba, etc.) and popular music such as Merengue, Salsa, Son, Boleros, Bachata, Cumbia, latin jazz, and others.
He sang and played conga for the group and they were good enough to appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
March hematuria, occurs when blood is seen in the urine after repetitive impacts on the body, particularly affecting the feet (such as running on a hard road or Kendo) and hands (e.g. Conga or Candombe drumming).
Since her early twenties, she has performed and recorded with celebrities in the Latin and jazz music scenes, including Tito Puente, Carlos Santana, Cachao, the celebrated conguero Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Armando Peraza, Giovanni Hidalgo, Joe Henderson, Sheila E, Steve Winwood, Michael Nesmith and others, and has made a name for herself as one of very few female band-leaders in Afro-Caribbean jazz.
Lenny White - conga, bongos, drums, percussion, marimba (CD 1 on tracks 7-9, CD 2)
After seeing Lester Horton and the modern dancers, "Zapata", he was enthralled by seeing the conga player.
Too Cool to Conga! is the thirteenth studio album released by the American musical group Kid Creole and the Coconuts.