by ralph » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:37 pm
yeah, this happen alot when you play with with a straight ahead jazz band...NOW i don't know who the piano player is but i never heard of a piano player (in the salsa/mambo/latinjazz idiom), who totally stops playing piano when the conga takes a solo...What a stop of momentum! a flavorful montuno only adds, and reinforces a good solo...one thing to note is that in latin jazz or salsa/mambo, etc...the piano, bass, cascara, mazacote, and martillo all fit together, while in a pop, or funk setting the conga may be more for color, that why the pianist may stop...because he is not aware of the importance of relationship between the instruments in the rhythm section, when speaking of latin rhythms