1. Discography
    Charts  Grammy Nominations  RIAA Certification 

2. External links

Pianist Bob Quaranta received his BM in music theory from the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts. For over ten years, he was a member of Mongo Santamaría's band and served as musical director. Two of the recordings Bob appeared on with Mongo were nominated for Grammy Awards: Mongo Magic and Free Spirit/Espíritu Libre. Quaranta has also performed and/or recorded with: Dave Valentin, Willie Colón, Ray Barretto, Tommy Igoe, Angel Canales and Jellybean Benitez.

With John Scofield, he recorded on the Yamaha instructional video The Drumset, A Musical Approach. Quaranta has also recorded a piano disk for the Yamaha Disklavier. He appears on the Hudson Music Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary Celebration & Bass Day 2002 DVD and CD. He continues to serve as an integral member of the Ed Palermo Big Band and currently is on the faculty of The Collective School of Music in New York City. Additionally, Quaranta's playing has been characterized as "magnificent" in the book, Latin Jazz: The First of The Fusions, John Storm Roberts.

Discography

Mongo Santamaría

• Afro Blue: The Picante Collection (Concord)
• Free Spirit/Espíritu Libre (M.I.L. Multimedia)
• Live at Jazz Alley (Concord)
• Mucho Mongo: Soca Me Nice/Olé Ola (Concord)
• Olé Ola (Concord)
• Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaría Anthology (Rhino)
• Soca Me Nice (Concord)
• Soy Yo (Concord)
• Mongo Magic (Roulette)
• Instant Party (Concord)
• Mucho Mambo Mongo (Recall)
• Slap It (12" Single) (TBS)

Ed Palermo Big Band

• Papier Machè (Vile Heifer)
• Ping Pong (Pro Jazz)
• Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (Astor Place)
• Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance (Cuneiform)
• Eddy Loves Frank (Cuneiform)
• Oh No! Not Jazz!! (Cuneiform)
• One Child Left Behind (Cuneiform)
• The Great Un-American Songbook, Volumes I & II (Cuneiform)
• The Adventures of Zodd Zundgren (Cuneiform)

• Electric Butter

• Open Door Samba (The Phil Chester Group)

Andrea Brachfeld

• Remembered Dreams (Latin Cool)
• Into the World: A Musical Offering (Shaneye)
• Lady of The Island (Zoho Music)

Angel Canales

• Ya Es Tiempo (Top Ten Hits)
• Different Shades of Thought (Universal Music Latino)

Various

• Concord Picante 25th Anniversary (Concord)
• Concord Records 30th Anniversary (Concord)
• Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary and Bass Day 2002 (DVD/CD) (Hudson Music)
• Zappanale 13 (DVD/CD) (Gema)
• 2006 Detroit International Jazz Festival (Mack Avenue Records, Inc.)
• Jazz Improv Magazine Vol.8 No.2 Companion CD
• A Passion for Music: LP Holiday CD: Volume 8 (LP)

Jellybean Benitez Just Visiting This Planet (Chrysalis)

Bob Quaranta La Bamba (Yamaha Disklavier)

Charts

Grammy Nominations

RIAA Certification

External links

• Ed Palermo Big Band
• The Collective School of Music
• [{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p116283/credits|pure_url=yes}} All Music: Bob Quaranta Credits]
• Mongo Magic
• KoSA

• Elena Kononova
• Elena Konstantinova
• Elena Kopets
• Elena Kosmina
• Elena Kotelnikova
• Elena Kotova
• Elena Kriegner
• Elena Krivonosova
• Elena Kubiliunaite
• Elena Kubiliūnaitė
• Elena Kubiliūnaitė-Garbačiauskienė
• Elena Kunitskaya
• Elena Kunova
• Elena Kviatkovskaya
• Elena Kvitchenko
• Elena Köpke
• Elena Lagadinova
• Elena Lagorara
• Elena Lander
• Elena Letuchaya
• Elena Levushkina
• Elena L. Grigorenko
• Elena Linari
• Elena Lissacheva
• Elena Livrinikj