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Milton Cardona

November 21, 1945 – September 19, 2014

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Milton Cardona (November 21, 1945 – September 19, 2014) was a Percussionist, Vocalist and Conga Player from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

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Highly influenced by Mongo Santamaria. Cardona made and appeared on over 500 recordings.

He studied violin during his childhood in Puerto Rico and played bass professionally in New York City as a youth before committing fully to being a percussionist.

He has collaborated with Kip Hanrahan, Spike Lee, Paul Simon, Willie Colón, David Byrne, Cachao, Larry Harlow, Eddie Palmieri, Don Byron, Celia Cruz, Hector Lavoe, Ned Rothenberg, Rabih Abou-Khalil and Jack Bruce from the rock band Cream.

Recording from the label: americanclave.com

A description of American Clave from their web site:

a music company, a record company, an anthology of musics (sequences of angers, passions, sexualities made audible and intangable by music) formed by the labor of Kip Hanrahan, Jack Bruce, Astor Piazolla, Robby Ameen, Horacio El Negro Hernandez, Don Pullen, Silvana DeLuigi, Paul Haines, Milton Cardona, Ishmael Reed, Steve Swallow, Alfredo Triff, Allen Toussaint, Puntilla Orlando Rios, David Murray, Taj Mahal, Sting, Andy Gonzalez, Arto Lindsay, Giovanni Hildalgo, Fernando Saunders, Leo Nocentelli, Benjamin Bratt, Pablo Ziegler, Fernando Suarez Paz, Carmen Lundy, Bobby Womack, Robert Wyatt, Peter Scherer, Lester Bowie, John Tchicai, Mike Cain, Jerry Gonzalez, Xiomara Laugart, Lucy Penebaz, George Cartwright, Elysee Pyronneau, Pedrito Martinez, Olu Dara, Amadito Valdez, Yosvannit Terry, Chocolate Armenteros, Dziga Vertov and many others informed by, but irrevert of expected form; but informed by and not irreverent of passionate cause and intent ...

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