found: Vazquez, P. Breakout [SR] p1992: container (Carlos "Patato" Valdez)
found: Longo, M. Funkia [SR] 197-?: container (Patato Valdez, percussion)
found: Green, G. The Latin bit [SR] p1996: container (Carlos "Potato" Valdez, conga; Potato Valdez)
found: New Grove dict. of jazz (Valdez, Carlos "Potato" (also "Patato"); b. Nov. 4, 1926, Havana; Cuban conga player and percussionist)
found: Conga kings [SR] p2000: container (Patato Valdes; Carlos "Patato" Valdes)
found: New York times WWW site, Dec. 6, 2007 (Carlos Valdés, better known as Patato; b. in Havana; d. Tuesday [Dec. 4, 2007], Cleveland, aged 81; his melodic conga playing made him a giant of Latin jazz in Cuba and then for more than half a century in America)
Valdez, Carlos
