Sam Clayton, the band's conga player, was ill and did not appear.
He looked like a conga player awaiting the summons onstage, but what he was waiting for was breakfast.
Many an American band has added a conga player, maracas, or other Latin percussion for just that reason.
The timbals and conga players snap away at rhythms, while the horns wail and shudder.
His earliest exposure to music came from the conga players who would practice for the annual carnival in the street outside his house.
He had the honor of being one of the most extensively recorded conga players in jazz.
There are one or more vocalists who may simultaneously play percussion plus timbales and conga players.
I became grateful to the Cuban conga player who toiled anonymously in the orchestra pit heating up my music.
He began his professional career as a conga player in Amsterdam with percussion-rock band Massada.
Jimmy Mackin played organ with the band from 1974 to early 1975, and the band also had a conga player, Cecil.