What type of jazz music uses bongos?

You know how there was “real punk” in the 70s and 80s, then “pop punk” in the 90s, then kinda-punk-sounds in pop music in the 00s? The Afro-Cuban (Latin) style goes way back, to most every Caribbean place that participated in the slave trade. That's “real punk. read more

Bongo drums are, as traditional cuban istruments, usually used in latino and fusion jazz bands, but also in a lot of soul and funk music. In 60’s spy movies a bad guy was often “from the south”, so fusion of cuban and jazz music somehow became standard for this kinds of soundtrack. read more

Bongos are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed drums of different sizes. In Spanish the larger drum is called the hembra and the smaller the macho. Together with the conga or tumbadora, and to a lesser extent the batá drum, bongos are the most widespread Cuban hand drums, being commonly played in genres such as son cubano, salsa and Afro-Cuban jazz. A bongo drummer is known as a bongosero. read more

Afro-Cuban jazz uses Cuban percussion instruments like congas and claves. Ibrahim Ferrer appeared in the documentary Buena Vista Social Club. Jazz fusion emerged in the late sixties and seventies when jazz was combined with rock and funk music. read more