Series: Say Brother
Program: Excursion with Tumbao, An
Episode: 924
Date: 1979-07-13
Subject: Hispanic American musicians

Clip Description
Program features an in studio performance by Tumbao, a Boston-based musical group blending Latin rhythms, jazz, and Afro-blues. Performers are David Nieves (band leader and base player), Israel Pabon (congas), Efraim Toro (random percusasion), Steve Gluzband (trumpet, horn, occasional piano), and Don Byron (clarinet, piano). Program includes a fifteen minute interview with Nieves conducted by Sixto Escobar, and Say Brother's "Music Beat" (a list of noteworthy musical recordings). Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by Brian Clarke.

Program Description
Program features an in studio performance by Tumbao, a Boston-based musical group blending Latin rhythms, jazz, and Afro-blues. Performers are David Nieves (band leader and base player), Israel Pabon (congas), Efraim Toro (random percusasion), Steve Gluzband (trumpet, horn, occasional piano), and Don Byron (clarinet, piano). Program includes a fifteen minute interview with Nieves conducted by Sixto Escobar, and Say Brother's "Music Beat" (a list of noteworthy musical recordings). Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by Brian Clarke.

Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez.

See also: http://main.wgbh.org/saybrother/programs/sb_0924.html