Blue Note Award, presented to Mongo Santamaría
date: label: Date made
content: 1985
name: label: referenced
content: Santamaria, Ramon "Mongo"
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This award was presented to Ramon "Mongo" Santamaría by the Blue Note Jazz Club, dated July 21, 1985. It has a brown stained wood base, two engraved metal plates, and a cast metal note. There are two engraved plates:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>The Blue Note Award<br>For<br>Musical Excellence In The<br>Jazz Idiom<br>Presented To<br>MONGO SANTAMARIA<br>With Many Thanks To A Master<br>Musician For A Monster Week Of<br>Musical Joy And Excitement</p>
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content: <p>(and):</p>
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content: <p>Blue [musical note]Note<br>1st Annual Blue Note<br>Latin Jazz Festival<br>July 21, 1985</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>The Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City hosted its first Latin Jazz Festival in various venues in New York from Friday, June 21 to Monday, July 1, 1985. Mongo Santamaría and his band performed at the Village Gate in the “Salsa Meets Jazz” program on June 24, 1985. The program included performances by Dizzy Gillespie, and Manny Oquendo’s Libre.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (1917–2003) was a Cuban percussionist and bandleader who spent most of his career in the United States. Primarily a conga drummer, Santamaría was a leading figure in the pachanga and boogaloo dance crazes of the 1960s. From the 1970s, he recorded mainly salsa and Latin jazz, before retiring in the late 1990s. Santamaria made several recordings as a leader of his own group, as well as a sideman with Fania All-Stars, Tito Puente, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ray Charles.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Percussion
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Nancy Santamaria
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0030.07
label: accession number
content: 2005.0030
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0030.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 12 in x 1/2 in; 38.1 cm x 30.48 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 12 in x 15 in; 7.62 cm x 30.48 cm x 38.1 cm