They would seek out other Cubans, like congüero and former Tropicana star Chano Pozo, or the composer and arranger Mario Bauzá, the consummate musician’s musician, whose credits included writing “Tanga,” the first Latin jazz tune. (Bauzá also introduced Chano Pozo to Dizzy Gillespie, and Gillespie to Cab Calloway, and possibly most important of all, he was one of the musicians who urged the big band conductor Chick Webb to hire, in 1934, a then-unknown seventeen-year-old singer named Ella Fitzgerald.)
