Francisco Aguabella
Francisco Aguabella ( born October 10, 1925in Matanzas, Cuba; † May 7, 2010 in Los Angeles, USA ) was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz drummer and percussionist.
Biography
Aguabella was known primarily as a session musician for artists in rock, Latin and jazz; In the early 1960s he worked with Barney Kessel. From him, among other things, the percussion passages on the albums Other Voices (1971), The Doors, Joe Henderson ( Canyon Lady, 1973), Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, Bobby Hutcherson and on Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints in 1990. Too, come together with Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra, he appeared. Aguabella lived most recently in Los Angeles. In 1992, he received a " National Heritage Fellowship " of the " National Endowment for the Arts ." At the University of California, he was a lecturer in Afro- Cuban percussion.
Dizzy Gillespie said of Aguabella: " Aguabella is the John Coltrane of the Conga Drums ."
Aguabella died at the age of 84 years to cancer.