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{{Short description|Cuban conga player}}
{{other people||Carlos Valdés (disambiguation)}}
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| birth_name = Carlos Valdés Galán
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▲| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|11|4|mf=y}}
▲| birth_place = Los Sitios, [[Centro Habana]], [[La Habana]], [[Cuba]]
| death_place = [[Cleveland (Ohio)|Cleveland]], Ohio, US
▲| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|12|4|1926|11|4|mf=y}}
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▲| years_active = 1944–2007
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▲| label = [[Panart Records|Panart]], [[Blue Note]], [[Verve Records|Verve]], [[Latin Percussion]]
▲| associated_acts = [[Armando Peraza]], [[Mongo Santamaría]], [[Tito Puente]], [[Charlie Palmieri]], [[Herbie Mann]], Eugenio "Totico" Arango, The Latin Percussion Jazz Ensemble
▲| website = http://pmrecords.com/Patato.shtml
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'''Carlos Valdés Galán''' (November 4, 1926 – December 4, 2007), better known as '''Patato''', was a Cuban [[conga]] player.<ref name="LP">{{cite web |url=http://www.lpmusic.com/artists/artist/PatatoValdez/ |title=Carlos "Patato" Valdes |publisher=LP Music |accessdate=28 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112102206/http://lpmusic.com/artists/artist/PatatoValdez
==Nicknames==
Like most Cuban musicians, Carlos Valdés had several nicknames throughout his artistic career. Early on he was known as "El Toro" (''The Bull'') as a young dancer and boxer. In school he was known as "Patato" (''
== Life ==
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=== Exile ===
Attracted by New York's thriving jazz scene, Patato left Cuba indefinitely on October 5, 1954.<ref name="herencia" /> His first full-length recording as a sideman was the notorious LP ''[[Afro-Cuban (album)|Afro-Cuban]]'' by [[Kenny Dorham]]. He went on to perform live alongside Mongo Santamaría and [[Tito Puente]] in [[Harlem]]. He then joined several ensembles, including those led by [[Willie Bobo]], [[Machito]] and [[Charlie Palmieri]]. He recorded with jazz drummers [[Art Blakey]], [[Art Taylor]] and [[Max Roach]]. By the early 1960s, Patato was amongst the most sought-after conga drummers in New York. His association with flautist and bandleader [[Herbie Mann]] would last over fifteen years. In 1959, the [[United States Department of State]] funded a trip for bandleader Herbie Mann to visit Africa, after they heard his version of "African Suite." The grueling 14-week tour took place between 12/31/1959 to 4/5/1960 featuring Mann (bandleader, flute and saxophone), Johnny Rae (vibraphone and arrangements), Don Payne (bass), [[Doc Cheatham]] (trumpet), [[Jimmy Knepper]] (trombone), Carlos "Patato" Valdés (congas) and [[José_Mangual_Sr.|José Mangual, Sr.]] (bongos). They toured Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Morocco and Tunisia.
Patato accompanied [[Dizzy Gillespie]] and [[Quincy Jones]] on extended tours throughout Europe. He acted in and composed the title song of ''[[The Bill Cosby Show]]''. In 1977 he took part in the recording of [[Cachao]]'s comeback albums. In 1991, he contributed to the movie soundtrack for ''The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love''. Patato was the leader of his own band, Afrojazzia, which toured Europe in the spring of 1994. In 1995 he recorded the album "Ritmo y candela" with fellow percussionists [[Changuito]] and [[Orestes Vilató]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Varela |first1=Jesse |title=The Conguero with the Golden Hands |url=http://pmrecords.com/Patato/LatinBeat.shtml |website=Latin Beat Magazine |accessdate=28 August 2014 |date=April 1997 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903075518/http://pmrecords.com/Patato/LatinBeat.shtml |archivedate=3 September 2014 }}</ref> Similarly, together with [[Giovanni Hidalgo]] and [[Candido Camero]] he released an album in 2000 entitled ''The Conga Kings''. That year he appeared in the documentary ''[[Calle 54]]''. In 2001, Patato was inducted into the [[International Latin Music Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite news|title=International Latin Music Hall of Fame Announces Inductees for 2001|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/international-latin-music-hall-of-fame-announces-inductees-for-2001-82320632.html|accessdate=31 October 2015|date=3 April 2001}}</ref>
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Valdés dazzled audiences well into his seventies with his rumba moves. He is also the man who gave [[Brigitte Bardot]] a mambo lesson in the film ''And God Created Woman''. Valdés also expressed his understanding of melody through bass and tres.
Together with Armando Peraza, Valdés would sometimes play a multi-conga and drum setup dubbed the "''bongófono''" at the Zombie Club in Havana.<ref>Fernández, p. 111.</ref> During the late 1940s, he helped develop the first tunable congas, as earlier models were tuned by the unwieldy method of heating them with a [[sterno]] can. His interest in design, as well as his friendship with LP Founder Martin Cohen, led to the development of the LP Patato Model Congas, one of the top-selling conga drums of all time.<ref name="LP" />
==Personal life==
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*''Descarga '77'' (Salsoul, 1977)
*''Dos'' (Salsoul, 1977)
'''With [[Rafael Cortijo]]'''
*''Patato y Cortijo – Guaguancó'' (Teca, c. 1970)
'''With Antonio "Chocolate" Díaz Mena'''
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*''[[Have Trumpet, Will Excite!]]'' (Verve, 1959)
*''[[Portrait of Jenny]]'' (Perception, 1970)
'''With [[Benny Golson]]'''
*''[[Remembering Clifford]]'' (Milestone, 1998)
'''With [[Johnny Griffin]] & [[Matthew Gee]]'''
*''[[Soul Groove]]'' (Atlantic, 1963)
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*''[[First Light (Family of Mann album)|First Light]]'' (Atlantic, 1974)
*''[[Reggae II]]'' (Atlantic, 1973 [1976])
'''With [[Johnny Pacheco]]'''
*''His Flute and Latin Jam'' (Fania, 1965)
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'''With [[Duke Pearson]]'''
*''[[The Phantom (album)|The Phantom]]'' (Blue Note, 1969)
'''With [[Dave Pike]]'''
*''[[Manhattan Latin]]'' (Decca, 1964)
'''With [[Tito Puente]]'''
*''Puente in Percussion'' (Tico, 1956)
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'''With [[Kenny Dorham]]'''
*''[[Afro-Cuban (album)|Afro-Cuban]]'' (Blue Note, 1955)
'''With [[Don Ellis]]'''
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*''Baby, You Should Know It'' (Ava, 1963)
'''[[José_Mangual_Sr.|With José Mangual, Sr.]]'''
*''Buyú'' (Turnstyle, 1977)
*''Authority'' (''LP Records'', 1977)
'''With [[Alfredo Rodríguez]]'''
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