LA CLAVE(GrupoX)with JIMMY BOSCH, JULY 2008
..........LA CLAVE with FRANKIE MORALES, UK SALSA CONGRESS, OCTOBER 2007............
I'm a percussionist who has spent most of my career to date playing afro-latin music of one kind or another. Among the instruments I play are timbales, congas, bongos, cajon, bata, drumset and small percussion. I played all of the drums and percussion that you hear on the 4 tracks on this page. I am also a composer/arranger/bandleader ( you should be hearing my album right now, a track from my 2002 album 'Salsa Feeling' with Tito Allen guesting on lead vocals), available here - .. For the last few years I've been also been working as a freelance musician, playing in various different lineups. These include GRUPO X, which has just released it's second album FOOD FOR YOUR LATIN SOUL ..
. In fact GRUPO X is very much on the front burner right now, as I am very much involved in the writing for the band's upcoming releases. We have a track being used in a TV ad in the US (May 2007) for DSW shoes, and we are currently working on our 3rd album, as well as an album of remixes of our earlier material for Chicago's Still Records, which should be out at the end of the summer. For further info about Grupo X, look at www.myspace.com/grupo-x and also grupo-x.com. I also play with MANOS NEGRAS, a band playing Afro-Peruvian music. Also am working with gifted producer, tresero, vibraphonist and arranger DORANCE LORZA, with his band SEXTETO CAFE, and also playing percussion on his productions for other artistes. . In a jazz vein, there is the MARK KIRK QUARTET. Mark is a trombone player from LA, and we do a really nice variety of tunes, mixing up music by Miles, Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane with versions of tunes by Micheal Jackson, Prince and Miss Dynamite ...I play drumset here, the instrument I began with, but left to one side somewhat in order to concentrate on percussion....well I'm getting back into the drumset now. The band also features pianist/composer Martin Weightman and bassist Ruth Goller, who also currently has the bass chair in the acclaimed Acoustic Ladyland. I am also one of the percussionists with THE LONDON LUCUMI CHOIR a wonderful new group which performs the folkloric music of Cuba. See below for a recent film clip of a performance (March 2008). I am playing the okonkolo (bata) drum. We are singing a sequence of songs for OYA, and the lead vocalist is Marta Galarraga, one of the best female vocalists singing in the lucumi tradition.
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I won't go on and on with all the records and artists I've ever dug, 'cause that would be boring, so I'll just say:- ALL GOOD MUSIC! ( if it gives me goosebumps then it's doing it for me...). Have a soft spot for, er, let me see now....anything that's got a pure thing about it ( but wait, I'm not a purist !).... salsa in particular seems to have ticked quite a few boxes over the years ( and there's been quite a few, let me tell you...). Also like music that has somekind of a blues feeling in there somewhere, and folkloric, eg afrocuban ( afro-latin in general). But it's not limited to the above...and stylistic considerations only go so far,it's bigger than that. The drum does rather feature, though, and that's me, that's what I do....I mix in some writing, arranging, producing...it's all one thing to me.
HI JIMMY.. my New CD "Breaking Skin/Rompiendo el Cuero" is now available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/congajohnny and at Descarga.com(see review)..Thank you all in advance for purchasing my music!..Volcano Percussion Artist-"JC" JOHNNY CONGA
hello my friend, check out cool million.. s nusoul track everything ain..t everything. remixed by iëlo featuring leadvocals from p.a.c.e. i really appreciate that i can use your profile to promote our music.
GRUPO X TREMENDO SWING!...HOPE ALL IS WELL ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND...CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT GRUPO X CD!.....A 'FAN' JOHNNY CONGA...PS SAY HELLO TO DAVE FOR ME...
Jimmy hola como estas brother aqui pasando a saludar .. me da gusto saber q te gustaron los tracks . oye gracias por el consejo. pero no creas q tengo las manos a si de tanto tocar , las tengo asi por horinarmelas tanto jajajajajjajajajajaja bro esta chevere tu pagina pa alante mi hermano cuidate
Good to meet you. I really enjoyed that rumba in Brighton. There's just not enough players in Australia to get anything like that happening which is why I try to get out when ever I can. At the moment I am in the south of Spain, collaborating with some Flamenco Musicians for a show incorporating Afro Cuban rumba with Flamenco and Jazz. Its coming along nicely so far. I'm going to stop by the Uk on the way back home in late july. Might see you then.
.. For the last few years I've been also been working as a freelance musician, playing in various different lineups. These include GRUPO X, which has just released it's second album FOOD FOR YOUR LATIN SOUL 
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