Sabu Martinez

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The Oracle 04:53 Tools
El Cumbanchero 05:38 Tools
Hotel Alyssa-Sousse, Tunisia 06:04 Tools
Rhapsodia Del Maravilloso 04:41 Tools
Asabache 04:24 Tools
Choferito-Plena 04:04 Tools
Delilah 04:21 Tools
Billumba-Palo Congo 06:07 Tools
Flamenco Ain't Bad 04:24 Tools
Simba 05:58 Tools
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Tribilin Cantore 05:19 Tools
Aggo Elegua 04:30 Tools
Afro Temple 07:02 Tools
I Remember Carmen 04:01 Tools
Hotel Alyssa - Sousse, Tunisia 00:00 Tools
My Christina 04:59 Tools
Meapestaculo 02:10 Tools
Martin Cohen Loves Latin Percussion 02:56 Tools
Wounded Knee 02:01 Tools
All Camels Hump 02:52 Tools
Para Ti, Tito Rodriguez 04:34 Tools
Enchantment 04:33 Tools
My Son Johnny And Me 01:47 Tools
Nica's Dream 06:39 Tools
Breakin' It In 04:14 Tools
Sorcery 05:02 Tools
My Cristina 04:44 Tools
Hotel Alyssa 00:00 Tools
Burned Sugar 16:54 Tools
Aurora Borealis 08:02 Tools
JEANETTE 16:54 Tools
The Polyvox Jam Part 2 05:40 Tools
Moon Black 07:36 Tools
Sol 05:46 Tools
Dawn 05:46 Tools
Ubas 05:46 Tools
Safari 12:13 Tools
Mamabollo 06:14 Tools
Woody'n You 05:05 Tools
Bernt 12:43 Tools
Hotel Alyssa - 12:43 Tools
Nadenga 06:34 Tools
The Polyvox Jam Part 1 05:30 Tools
Bonco 06:40 Tools
Milk Weed 06:29 Tools
My Son, Johnny And Me 01:51 Tools
Will-O-The Wisp 05:28 Tools
Education 01:37 Tools
Hotel Alyssa- Sousse, Tunisia 00:00 Tools
High Tension 06:34 Tools
Descarga Atomica 05:02 Tools
Hotel Alyssa Soussi 02:26 Tools
Organo Oriental 08:52 Tools
Libido Blues 04:59 Tools
Nus 03:10 Tools
Woody 'n You 05:05 Tools
Cosmicon 06:23 Tools
Blues En Latin 08:37 Tools
Luna De Vermont 03:48 Tools
Maldito Primitivo 13:17 Tools
In Orbit 06:51 Tools
Pancho Pachanga 07:40 Tools
Arroz Con Leche 06:42 Tools
Billumba - Palo Congo 06:09 Tools
The Distorted Sioux Indian 05:23 Tools
The Sacrifice 03:53 Tools
Hotel Alyssa-Sousse,Tunisia 08:37 Tools
Hotel Alyssa - Sousse - Tunisia 03:18 Tools
Choferito - Plena 04:04 Tools
Woddy'n You 05:06 Tools
Rhapsodia Del Marisillio 04:39 Tools
Söndagsbladet 03:10 Tools
A Memo To Art Blakey 02:59 Tools
Montuno Pachanguero 04:29 Tools
Sousse, Tunisia 12:59 Tools
The Latin Percussion People 12:59 Tools
Oh! Min Dara!! 02:55 Tools
GHANDIS CANDIES 07:00 Tools
Hot Salsa 09:15 Tools
Rock & Roll Pachanga 04:30 Tools
Puertorican Rice and Beans 09:56 Tools
Mambo-Pachanga 02:55 Tools
Mambo Pachanga 04:55 Tools
High Tension (Descarga) 06:38 Tools
Intro 00:27 Tools
Cute 02:42 Tools
Choferito Plena 04:04 Tools
Not So Loud, Please 02:26 Tools
Cosmicon (Descarga) 09:56 Tools
Libido Blues (Frizao) 05:01 Tools
Triblin Cantore 06:42 Tools
Track-10 02:53 Tools
In Orbit (Descarga) 02:53 Tools
Billumba Palo Congo 06:09 Tools
Bwana Simba 01:45 Tools
Kele Kele 04:19 Tools
Flipping 00:23 Tools
Guajira Plaza Dolon Puerto Rico 09:58 Tools
Ochun 04:30 Tools
La Pecadora 07:41 Tools
No More 04:29 Tools
Ofo 05:09 Tools
Oluo Anu 06:57 Tools
Rock & Roll-Pachanga 00:00 Tools
Oracle 04:55 Tools
Groovin' 05:14 Tools
My Christina (SWE 1973) 00:00 Tools
Tumbael Tambo 02:37 Tools
Woody 'n' You 05:05 Tools
Montuno Pachnguero 04:34 Tools
Omo Ado 04:21 Tools
Guajira Plaza Colon Puerto Rico 09:57 Tools
Rock & Roll - Pachanga 07:41 Tools
The Beat Goes On 03:13 Tools
Hotel Alyssa-Sousse, Tunishia 03:18 Tools
Track-11 01:20 Tools
Flapjacks 03:55 Tools
SABU AFRO TEMPLE - 07 - Track 01:20 Tools
The Polyvox Jam, Pt. 1 01:20 Tools
Sabu Martinez - Hotel Alyssa - Sousse, Tunisia 05:05 Tools
Marin Cohen Loves Latin Percussion 00:00 Tools
Enchantement 04:31 Tools
SABU AFRO TEMPLE - 02 - Track 05:09 Tools
Rock and Roll Pachanga 02:37 Tools
Hotel Alyssa Sousse, Tunisia 06:04 Tools
Recado Bossa Nova 04:02 Tools
The Oracle (Selected by Gilles Peterson) 05:26 Tools
Introduction for the program Tonkraft 05:26 Tools
Will-O-The-Wisp 05:26 Tools
Old Devil Moon 09:58 Tools
Introduction for the program Tonkraft by Christer Eklund 03:55 Tools
The Beat Goes on (feat. Rune Gustafsson and Sture Nordin) 04:50 Tools
Mato Grooso 05:26 Tools
Moondongo 02:37 Tools
Hotel Alyssa-Sousse, Tunisia (DJ Food & DK - Now, Listen!) 00:00 Tools
Otra Vez 00:21 Tools
Guaguanco 04:50 Tools
Dawin 09:44 Tools
I Remember Carmen (Samba) 09:44 Tools
O, Grande Amor 05:36 Tools
No More (Jag Vill Tro) 03:03 Tools
エル・クンバンチェロ 09:44 Tools
Pequena Y Fragil 09:44 Tools
Woody'n You (Descarga) 09:44 Tools
Breakin'it in 04:50 Tools
Montuno-Pachanguero 04:50 Tools
Enchantment (Bolero Cha Cha Cha) 04:50 Tools
Sabu Martinez - Afro Temple - 05:02 Tools
El Cubanchero 05:02 Tools
Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay 05:02 Tools
Groovin 04:50 Tools
Delilah (Afro) 04:50 Tools
Tribilín Cantore 00:30 Tools
Yowcolule 04:50 Tools
01 Martin Cohen Loves Latin Percussion 09:44 Tools
Echantment 05:02 Tools
07 Para Ti, Tito Rodriguez 09:44 Tools
02 Meapestaculo 09:44 Tools
Spitfire 05:02 Tools
Zulu 00:21 Tools
Dapinian 05:02 Tools
10 Track 10 03:53 Tools
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay 02:27 Tools
09 My Cristina 04:50 Tools
Coda 03:58 Tools
Libido Blues (Frizao´) 03:58 Tools
SABU AFRO TEMPLE - 05 - Track 03:53 Tools
SABU AFRO TEMPLE - 01 - Track 03:03 Tools
SABU AFRO TEMPLE - 04 - Track 03:03 Tools
Oh! Min Dara!!! 03:58 Tools
Marcia 03:58 Tools
Ayilongo 03:58 Tools
Fuyiika 00:21 Tools
Asiwanda 00:21 Tools
Hotel Alyssa Soussie, Tunisia 00:30 Tools
The Polyvox Jam, Pt. 2 00:30 Tools
Rhapsodia Del Marvilloso 00:30 Tools
Ghandi's Candies 00:30 Tools
Hotle Alyssa-Sousse, Tunisia 00:30 Tools
hotel alyssa - sousse tunisia 03:58 Tools
SABU AFRO TEMPLE - 06 - Track 03:58 Tools
Not So Loud Please 02:26 Tools
SABU AFRO TEMPLE - 03 - Track 03:58 Tools
SABU AFRO TEMPLE - 09 - Track 03:58 Tools
SABU AFRO TEMPLE - 08 - Track 03:58 Tools
Intro (Gem)/The Oracle (Descarga) 03:58 Tools
08 My Son Johnny and Me 06:44 Tools
04 Afro Temple 06:44 Tools
Cubanchero 06:44 Tools
03 Wounded Knee 06:44 Tools
Meapestacuio 03:58 Tools
Sha Sha Calor 03:58 Tools
Ben Je Engay 04:29 Tools
Hotel Alyssa-Sousse Tunisia 03:18 Tools
Muñequita Linda 03:18 Tools
Flamnco ain ''I'' Band 03:18 Tools
El O Yo 02:26 Tools
Sabu's Jazz Espagnole 02:26 Tools
I Told You So 05:07 Tools
I've Got a Feeling 04:29 Tools
CHOFERITO 04:29 Tools
06 Hotel Alyssa-Soussie, Tunisia 03:58 Tools
Descarga Atómica 03:58 Tools
Otra Vez (Gem)/Flamenco Ain't Bad (Son Montuno) 04:29 Tools
para ti tito rodriguez 04:29 Tools
Nica's Dream (Mambo Ninigo)/Coda (Gem) 04:29 Tools
Hotel Alyssa - Sousse, Tunesia 04:29 Tools
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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 spent his childhood beating rhythms on tin cans on 111th Street. By the age of 11, he was performing every third night on 125th Street for 25 cents a night. He was still in his early teens when he began playing with Latin bands including those led by Marcelino Guerra and Catalino Rolón. In 1944, he spent an extended period living in Puerto Rico. After serving a year in the military, at the age of 17, Martinez resumed his musical career as a member of mambo originator Joe Loco's trio. Within a few months, his playing attracted the attention of jazz musicians. In 1946, he began a long association with drummer Art Blakey. Martinez and Blakey continued to periodically work together until 1959. In addition to leading the rhythm section on Blakey's groundbreaking album Orgy in Rhythm in 1954, he was featured on the Jazz Messengers albums Cu-Bop and Messages in 1957. Martinez continued to be a much-in-demand session player. In addition to playing traditional Latin music with the Lecuono Cuban Boys, he collaborated with Charlie Parker and Max Roach during a 13-week stint at the New York club the Three Deuces. In April, 1949, he performed with swing clarinetist Benny Goodman. The high point of Martinez's career came in 1948 when he joined Dizzy Gillespie's band, following the murder of influential conga player Chano Pozo. During the nine months that he performed with the group, he played on five albums: Dizzy, Dizzier and Dizzier, 16 Rare Performances, When Be-Bop Met the Big Band, and Diz. In return, Gillespie nicknamed Martinez "Sabu" when he noticed a resemblance to popular Indian actor Sabu, the "Elephant Boy." Despite his fame, Martinez struggled with heroin addiction. In the mid-'50s, he briefly left music to run a strip joint in Baltimore. Although he overcame his addiction in 1956, it took several years for him to become "psychologically free" from the grasp of the drug. Forming his own quintet, Martinez recorded three memorable albums: the Afro-Cuban masterpiece Palo Congo in 1957, and two, Safari and Sorcery, in 1958, that have been described as "the wildest exotica records ever." In 1960, Martinez collaborated with Louie Ramirez to record the history-making Latin jazz album Jazz Espagnole. Four years later, he relocated temporarily to Puerto Rico, where he performed with several bands including the Johnny Conquet Orchestra and met his future wife, Agneta. In 1967, they were married and moved to Agneta's homeland in Sweden. Martinez remained there for the rest of his life. Shortly after moving to Sweden, Martinez took a gig with Lill Lindfor's Musical Revue. This began a long involvement with Swedish musicians. In addition to sharing his knowledge of music and the conga as a teacher, he performed and recorded with such artists as Cornelius Vreeswick, Merit Hemmingson, Radiojazzgruppen, Björbobandet, the Eero Koisvistoinen Music Society, the Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination and Brass, Gugge Hedrenius' Big Band, and Ivan Oscarsson. While in Sweden, he occasionally collaborated with American musicians including Kenny Clarke, Art Farmer, and George Russell. In 1973, he formed his own band, New Burnt Sugar, and released a book of conga exercises. His final recording sessions came while working on Debbie Cameron and Richard Boone's album Brief Encounter in 1978. Martinez died on January 13, 1979, of a gastric ulcer. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.