José Corriale

José "Pepe" Corriale ( Argentina , September 4 , 1915 / November 7 , 1997 ) was an Argentine musician and unionist , drummer and percussionist . He mainly performed tango music . He was a member of the orchestras led by Francisco Canaro , Osvaldo Fresedo , Julio De Caro , Carlos García , José Libertella , and Armando Pontier . Lucio Demare , Mariano Mores and Astor Piazzolla . With this he played the drums in 1968, for the opera María de Buenos Aires . He was also occasionally a member of the National Symphony Orchestra and the Opera Theater hired him on several occasions to accompany international figures such as Paul Anka , Caterina Valente , Cab Calloway and Sammy Davis . He was a member of Naty Mistral 's band . He formed the Pepeco Quintet, which was characterized by contributing unpublished timbre to tango made with percussion. He composed the tango “Julián Centeya”. He is the author of the book La batería en el tango . He was the first president of the Argentine Musicians Union . Father of jazz singer Lilian Red