Chico Arnéz

Chico Arnéz was a London-based Latin bandleader of the 1960s and 1970s.[1][2] Arnez also played bongo drums and authored a textbook on bongo playing (1959).[3][4][5]

Discography

References

  1. ↑ David Griffiths - Hot Jazz: From Harlem to Storyville 1998 p62 "My manager at the time sent me down to London to audition for the famous bandleader, Chico Arnez. I remember going along there and only singing four bars, just four bars of music, and he offered me a twenty-five-year contract with a retainer ..."
  2. ↑ The Gramophone Volume 52 - Page 1243 1974 "Chico Arnez is less successful with the rather corny "Non-Stop Dance Party" (Music for Pleasure MFP- 50179)
  3. ↑ Kenneth A. Mueller Teaching total percussion 1972 Page 213 Bongos Made Easy by Chico Arnez (New Sound in Modern Music; 1959) a fully illustrated book on playing the bongos Latin American Rhythm Instruments and ..."
  4. ↑ Mark Miller Jazz in Canada: fourteen lives 1982 Page 52 As a member of a Latin band led by one Chico Arnez he went to Germany to play for personnel on the us military bases there.
  5. ↑ International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory 1975 Sound of Chico Arnez; From Chico With Love; Chico; Non Stop Dance Party: This is Chico This is Keely; Unknown Soldier Worships: PRS; Songwriters' Guild; Variety Club of Gt Britain. Hobbies: Football; Swimming; Painting. Address: 102.
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