Willie Bobo

Willie Bobo (actually: William Correa, born February 28, 1934 in New York City; † December 15, 1983 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz percussionist, and is considered one of the major representatives of the Latin jazz of the 1960s.

Bobo received training on timbales and conga with Mongo Santamaría and Armando Peraza. He started his professional career in the early 1950s as a band member Machito. Peraza introduced him to George Shearing, whose album The Shearing Spell he played. In addition, he worked with various musicians, including Stan Getz together as a studio musician and entered man as a sideman Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, George Shearing, Herbie Hancock and Herbie on.

In 1960, he took with his former teacher, Santa Maria Album Sabroso! on. His breakthrough came in 1965 when he worked on Cal Tjaders successful Latin jazz album Soul Sauce. He got a contract with record label Verve, which appeared as the first of a series of albums Spanish Grease.

In the later 1960s he moved to Los Angeles, where he founded his own band (at times with Esteban Jordan ) worked in 1966, with musicians such as Carlos Santana and participated in the band of The Cosby Show. His son Eric Correa is a percussionist of hip hop group Cypress Hill.

Discography

  • Sabroso! , Fantasy, 1961
  • Do That Thing / Guajira, Tico, 1963
  • Inventions & Dimensions, w / Herbie Hancock, Blue Note, 1963
  • Bobo 's Beat, Roulette, 1964
  • Let's Go Bobo! , Roulette, 1964
  • Spanish Grease, Verve, 1965
  • Feelin ' So Good, Verve, 1967
  • Juicy, Verve, 1967
  • Bobo Motion, Verve, 1967
  • Spanish Blues Band, Verve, 1967
  • A New Dimension, Verve, 1968
  • Evil Ways, Verve 1968
  • Do What You Want To Do, Tomorrow Is Here, Blue Note, 1977
  • Hell Of An Act To Follow, Columbia, 1978
  • Bobo, Columbia, 1979
  • Jazz drummer
  • American musician
  • Born in 1934
  • Died in 1983
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