Chino Pozo

Francisco " Chino" Pozo ( born October 4, 1915 in Havana, † April 28, 1980 in New York City ) was a Cuban percussionist.

Pozo is the cousin of singer and percussionist Chano Pozo and learned piano, bass and percussion autodidact. He went in 1937 by Cuba to the United States, played from 1941 to 1943 with Machito, from 1943 to 1949 with the " Jack Cole Dancers" and a number of orchestras of Cuban music, such as with Jose Curbelo and Tito Puente. With the jazz he came by Fats Navarro, AK Salim, Billy Taylor and Tadd Dameron ( Jahbero ) in contact. At the beginning of the 1950s he was involved in the "Afro - Cuban Suite " by Machito and Chico O'Farrill, was in pointed out as a soloist Charlie Parker, accompanied 1954/5 Peggy Lee and worked with Stan Kenton in 1955 and 1956 with Herbie Mann. In the 1950s he also took with musicians such as Perez Prado, Xavier Cugat (1959 ), René Touzet (1959 ), Illinois Jacquet, Les Jazz Modes, Chris Connors, Phineas Newborn and Dizzy Gillespie. In the 1960s he worked for, inter alia, Peggy Lee, Gábor Szabó and Clark Terry. The last years of his life he spent in Las Vegas, where he played with Paul Anka.