Sabu Martinez

Cuba

Born: 14 July 1930

Died: 13 January 1979

Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70

Genres: Latin, Easy Listening, Jazz, International

Styles: World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz, Latin America, Latin America, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Bop, Cuban Jazz, Afro-Cuban, Exotica, Exotica/Lounge, Rumba, Tropical, Tropical, Mainstream Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz

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Louis "Sabu" Martinez was one of the most prolific conga players in the history of Afro-Cuban music. In addition to his own albums, Martinez recorded with such influential jazz musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Buddy DeFranco, J.J. Johnson, Louis Bellson, Art Farmer, and Art Blakey, and jazz vocalists including Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis, Jr. Emigrating to Sweden in 1967, he continued to apply his highly melodic rhythms to a lengthy list of recordings by top-notch Swedish performers. A native of New York's Spanish Harlem, Martinez...

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