denny Schools Periods & Styles book

This is a custom Nautilus Cajon (nautiluscajons.com) which was built for Mingo Lewis. It features high fidelity transducers (pickups) from Pick Up the World (pick-uptheworld.com ), two different sounding heads with adjustable/mutable snares on each, as well as a hand painted nautilus shell. The pickups have a volume control knob and on off switch just inside the sound hole of the cajon, with a 1/4 inch output, its as easy to plug in and amplify as any electric guitar. The discography of Mingo Lewis reads like a virtual who's who of the jazz/rock-fusion scene. A world-class percussionist, Lewis was recruited by Santana in the early 1970s and went on to perform and record with Chick Corea's groundbreaking ......Return to Forever, Al DiMeola and many others. Lewis has enjoyed an extremely distinguished career as a critical percussive element in some of the most memorable music within the above mentioned genre, but has never been recognized for being a bandleader himself. Lewis became an official member of Santana shortly thereafter and left his last year of high school to join the band's ongoing world tour. First stop: Puerto Rico, then Paris, and beyond. After the tour, Lewis would figure prominently on Caravanserai, a record that marked a crucial demarcation point between Santana's earlier radio-friendly period, and Carlos' new fascination with the music of John Coltrane, Miles Davis and the spiritual teaching of guru Sri Chinmoy. The band was encouraged to experiment and ...