This bongo player (sorry I don't know his name) played for several hours to both jazz and blues music at the Tymeless Restaurant in downtown Modesto. For me, this is yet another piece of evidence of how jazz and blues represent a fantastic clash of cultures. The bongos, you see, originated in Cuba around the 1800s, about the same time that slavery was abolished there. They are believed to have originated from a combination of African influence (specifically from Morroco) from the slave trade and the Abakua Religion in Cuba and South America. Yet, today, they are widely accepted as a jazz percusion instrument, which is considered to be very "North American."
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