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Jack Costanzo & His Orchestra
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Jack Costanzo (Chicago, Illinois, US, September 24, 1919 – August 18, 2018) was an American percussionist. A composer, conductor and drummer, Costanzo is best known as a bongo player, and is nicknamed "Mr. Bongo". He visited Havana three times in the 1940s and learned to play Afro-Cuban rhythms on the bongos and congas. Costanzo started as a dancer, touring as a team with his wife before World War II. After his discharge from the Navy, he worked as a dance instructor at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Latin band leader Bobby Ramos heard Costanzo playing bongos in a jam sess… read more
Jack Costanzo (Chicago, Illinois, US, September 24, 1919 – August 18, 2018) was an American percussionist. A composer, conductor and drummer, Costanzo is best known as a bongo player, and i… read more
Jack Costanzo (Chicago, Illinois, US, September 24, 1919 – August 18, 2018) was an American percussionist. A composer, conductor and drummer, Costanzo is best known as a bongo player, and is nicknamed "Mr. Bongo". He visited … read more
