This is a page for members of TheBongoGroup on Yahoo to share their music with each other.

LEGAL NOTICE: Some of these recordings are copyrighted. We have posted them here strictly for educational purposes, and we believe this is protected by the Fair Use Act of US copyright law. This page only contains music that illustrates bongo drumming techniques, and has only been made available to the bongo students of TheBongoGroup on Yahoo Groups.

To listen, click on the song-title links. Each link will open a new window, and the MP3 should start playing automatically.  If a link doesn't work for you, please let me know at bongomania (at) usa.net.  If you have a bongo tune you would like to post here, you can email it to that address, or use the services of Yousendit.com or Dropload.com, both of which allow you to upload large files.  Give them my email address as the recipient.  ¡Gracias y a gozar!

 

Cookin' with the Martillo VIDEO by Matthew Dubuque (17.4 MB Windows Media format)
This video demonstrates some of Matthew's ideas and techniques for building martillo-based bongo patterns in a variety of music styles.

Afro lesson VIDEO by Matthew Dubuque (6.4 MB Windows Media format)

Afro lesson VIDEO by Matthew Dubuque (10.2 MB Quicktime format)

Rights to this video are owned solely by Matthew Dubuque.

Bongo Madera; a tiny demonstration of Pedro Barreira's wooden-headed bongos by Cyrus

Cyrus jams to Monk

This is a 22 MB Quicktime video where I'm demonstrating a few different phrasings that work in a jazz context. Man, I'm out of practice though... terribly rusty chops!

Alegre Te Invita by the Alegre All-Stars
I was mistaken in my previous note about Kako playing bongos on this track- the bongocero is Charlie Salinas. Kako plays timbales here. So the real point of interest is to hear bongos played in a comparsa tune, very unusual!

Ahora by Poncho Sanchez
Bongos by our man David Romero!

Homenaje a Ivan Cáceres by Anthony Carillo

Bongo solo by our own Isaac Gutwilik

La Rumba Está Buena by Grupo Changüí de Guantanamo
Changüí is an early Cuban music that predates son montuno.

Nengón by La Familia Miranda
Nengón is another very early Cuban form

Bustin' the Bongos by Les Baxter
a example of "exotica" drumming records from the 1950s

Amor Entre Tres by NG La Banda
a 1995 Cuban tune with some nice bongó licks halfway through

El Cumbanchero by Anselmo Sacasas
Hot! This is the best version of this tune that I've heard, with a very young Tito Puente on bongó

Caramelo by Julius Melendez
featuring some very tasty playing by Orestes Vilató, from which we could all learn something

a bongo solo by Anthony Carillo

Promise of a Fisherman by Carlos Santana
Armando Peraza on bongó and on fire!

La Rumba Soy Yo by Sonora Poncena
bongó solo by Angelito Hernandez

Poema by Maria Marquez
bongó by John Santos

Mujer Perjura
This one is a WMA, not an MP3, so you'll need Windows Media Player to play it.

 

 

 

 

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