After travelling to Cuba to improve his bongo playing, Kelowna naturopath and jazz musician Trevor Salloum looked in vain in Books In Print each year for any book exclusively about bongos. Salloum's The Bongo Book (Mel Bay $17.95 U.S.) is a 64-pager that provides a CD of drumming patterns explained in the text, plus interviews with some of the world's foremost bongoceros such as Cubans Armando Peraza, Candido Camero and Jack Costanzo. 0-7866-2071-4

[BCBCW 1997]