Tito Puente's Timbales
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- Created Date
- 1990-1996
- Description
Born in New York City's Spanish Harlem to Puerto Rican parents, Tito Puente became one of the most important Latino bandleaders, composers, arrangers, and percussionists of his generation. He mastered both Afro-Caribbean music and jazz, contributing to the development of Latin Jazz, mambo, and salsa. In collaboration with other great Latin music and jazz artists, he brought a new Latin sound to American music.
Currently not on view
- Creator
- Latin Percussion
- Partner
- Smithsonian Institution
- Contributing Institution
- National Museum of American History
- Subjects
- National Treasures exhibit
Popular Entertainment
Cultures & Communities
Artifact Walls exhibit
Latin Percussion
Music & Musical Instruments
Olympics
Puente, Tito - Rights
- Tito Puente
- Chicago citation style
- Latin Percussion. Tito Puente's Timbales. 1990-1996. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID%3Anmah_609361&repo=DPLA. (Accessed February 22, 2019.)
- APA citation style
- Latin Percussion, (1990-1996) Tito Puente's Timbales. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID%3Anmah_609361&repo=DPLA
- MLA citation style
- Latin Percussion. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID%3Anmah_609361&repo=DPLA>.