
Artist
Mongo Santamaría
Mongo Santamaría is a latin artist from Cuban. 90 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Latin · Cuban · Best latin albums
- 90
- Releases
- 1959–2025
- Active years

Artist
Mongo Santamaría is a latin artist from Cuban. 90 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Latin · Cuban · Best latin albums

Most popular
Watermelon Man
1963

Fuego
1973

Sabroso!
1959

Mambo Mongo
1993

Ritmo Cubano
2025

Mango Mambo - Mongo Santamaria Mambo Summer Jam
2024

Best Collection Mongo Santamaria
2024

Essential Classics, Vol. 143: Mongo Santamaria
2024

Recordando a Mongo Santamaria
2023

Feliz Navidad y próspero Año Nuevo de Mongo Santamaria
2023

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from Mongo Santamaria
2023

Music around the World by Mongo Santamaria
2023

Mas Sabroso
2021

Soy Yo
2021

Ritmos de Cuba
2021

Icono del Jazz Latino (Remastered)
2021

Sabor
2021

Olé Ola
2021

The Mambo Terrifico
2021

Members Club
2020

Chango + Mongo Santamaria and His Afro-Cuban Drum Beaters
2020

Mambomongo
2020

Live Treasures
2020

Live At Jazz Alley
2020

Images
2020

Uncle Calypso (Remastered)
2019

Todos Sus Éxitos (Remasterizado)
2019

Amanecer
2019

At The Black Hawk (Remastered)
2019

All the Things You Are (Remastered)
2019

The Peanut Vendor (Remastered)
2019

Lo Mejor de Mongo Santamaría (Remastered)
2019

Don't Bother Me No More (Remastered)
2019

Palo Mayombe (Remastered)
2019

What Do You Mean
2018

Lo mejor de Mongo (Remastered)
2018

Mongo at the Village Gate
2018

Que Maravilloso
2018

Mongo Santamaria
2016

Linda guajira (Remastered)
2016

Playlist: The Best Of Mongo Santamaria
2016

Canta Bajo
2016

Roots
2015

El Bravo
2015

Grandes éxitos (Remastered)
2015

En La Felicidad
2015

A La Luna Me Voy
2015

Fiesta Abacua
2014

Timbales & Bongo
2014

Golden Hits by Mongo Santamaria
2014

Mongo's Hour, Vol. 2
2013

Mongo's Theme
2013

Cha Cha Rock, Vol. 2
2013

Cha Cha Rock, Vol. 1
2013

100% Mongo Santamaría
2013

Mongo's Hour, Vol. 1
2013

Mongo Beats
2013

The Best Of Mongo Santamaria, Vol. 2
2013

Afro-Cuban Jazz - The Best Of
2012

Espiritu Libre
2011

Live in The Netherlands
2011

Afro Blue
2010

Costa Del Oro
2010

Live At Yankee Stadium
2010

Montreux Heat!
2010

Jazz Latino, Vol. 1
2010

Jazz Latino, Vol. 2
2010

Congobel
2009

Our Man In Havana
2007

Yambu
2007

Arriba!
2007

Explosion!
2007

Bembe
2007

Mongo Returns!
2007

Our Man En La Habana!
2007

Live in Havana
2007

Sofrito
2006

Afro-Indio
2006

Mongo's Greatest Hits
2006

Afro American Latin
2000

Santa Maria
2000

Brazilian Sunset
1996
Soca Me Nice
1988

Mongo Santamaria's Greatest Hits
1988
Dawn (Amanecer)
1977

Skins
1976
Ubane
1976
Mongo's Way
1971
Mongo '70
1970
Hey! Let's Party
1967
Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a rumba quinto master and an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue", recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1950 he moved to New York City where he played with Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Fania All Stars, etc. He was an integral figure in the fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms with R&B and soul, paving the way for the boogaloo era of the late 1960s. His 1963 hit rendition of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" (recorded on December 17, 1962) was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Mongo Santamaría was one of a handful of Cuban congueros ("conga players") who came to the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. Other notable congueros who came to the U.S. during that time include Armando Peraza, Chano Pozo, Francisco Aguabella, Julito Collazo, Carlos Vidal Bolado and Modesto Durán. Many consider Santamaría to have been the greatest conga drummer of the twentieth century.