#23 Samuel Torres- Conga Great, Composer, Arranger & Percussionist for Arturo Sandoval

This is the crowdfunding campaign to donate to the families and victims of the Manchester Attack.

All Blues by Miles Davis was the African American music featured. Here is the definition of what defines food as Soul Food. 

If you are interested in Make Music Day on Wed June 21st, here is the LINK

This is the article about Spotify relocating the new US headquarters and adding 1,000 jobs. And this is the article about Spotify and the $43 million settlement to make sure the content creators get what they deserve. This is the Chris Rock monologue talking about the Freedom Tower. This is the video where John Oliver talks about the defiance during the London attack. 

This is the article about the 91 year old Cabaret law and the suit against the NYC club Muchmore in 2013. (It's the third article down).

These are the artistic percussion instruments called Morfbeats. 

The tune played before the featured interview is called "Crazy Montuno" off of Samuel's album, "Skin Tones".

This is an article on Samuel's Uncle Edy Martinez.

One of the band's Samuel played with in Miami was Timbalive. This is one maraca solo Samuel plays and this is the solo with Arturo that Marcos refers to.

This is some footage from the Thelonious Monk Competition when it was for percussion.

This is the video of Samuel playing the congas tuned to E minor.

This is Afro-Colombian from the Pacific Coast. This is Caribbean Coast, "Bullerengue", the root of Cumbia. This is Cumbia in big band, which is what became famous in the 40's and 50's. Finally, this is Musica LLanera that Colombia shares with Venezuela.

If you would like more info on Samuel, you can read about him here, or check out his Website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or his YouTube page.

Samuel uses Latin Percussion instruments and Remo Drumheads exclusively.