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Jack Costanzo (1919-2018)

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Marc Myers
Aug 27, 2018
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Jack Costanzo, a jazz percussionist whose fierce bongo playing added drama and heat to hundreds of jazz, pop and Latin recordings, performances and TV and movie soundtracks starting in the late 1940s, died August 18. He was 98. [Photo by William P. Gottlieb in 1948]


Costanzo wasn't the first to record jazz on the bongos. The instrument first appeared on …

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