Oral history interview with Candido Camero, 2010

Biographical Note

Jazz percussionist

Scope and Contents

Background: born 1921 in Cuba; move to New York in 1952; recording with Dizzy Gillespie; role as jazz percussionist beginning in 1950s; specialization in conga and bongo drums; receiving of 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award; recollections of past venues and fellow performers including Tito Puente, Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie

Subjects

• Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
• Azenha, Gustavo, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Basie, Count, 1904-1984.
• Candido, 1921---Interviews.
• Drummers (Musicians)--Interviews.
• Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993.
• Jazz musicians.
• Puente, Tito, 1923-2000.
• Rowland, Steve, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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