Smithsonian Collections
Tito Puente's Timbales
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Description
- Born in New York City's Spanish Harlem to Puerto Rican parents, Tito Puente became one of the most important Latino bandleaders, composers, arrangers, and percussionists of his generation. He mastered both Afro-Caribbean music and jazz, contributing to the development of Latin Jazz, mambo, and salsa. In collaboration with other great Latin music and jazz artists, he brought a new Latin sound to American music.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- user
- Puente, Tito
- maker
- Latin Percussion
- Date made
- 1990-1996
- Credit Line
- Tito Puente
- Physical Description
- paper; plastic; steel; chrome (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 126 cm x 70 cm x 63 cm; 49 5/8 in x 27 9/16 in x 24 13/16 in
- Object Name
- drum
- drum set
- subject
- Olympics
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Musical Instruments
- Cultures & Communities
- National Treasures exhibit
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Art
- Popular Entertainment
- Place Made
- United States: New Jersey, Garfield
- ID Number
- 1996.0304.01
- accession number
- 1996.0304
- catalog number
- 1996.0604.01
- Related Publication
- Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
- National Museum of American History. Treasures of American History online exhibition
- Related Web Publication
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/treasures
