Mingo Lewis

Mingo Lewis
Birth name	James Mingo Lewis
Born	December 1940 (age 83) New York City, U.S.
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)	Drums, percussion
Labels	Columbia

James Mingo Lewis (born December 1940) is an American jazz percussionist and drummer who played with Santana, Al Di Meola and The Tubes. He was a band member for Di Meola's first five albums, and is credited with composition of one song on each each of the first three: Lewis composed "The Wizard" on Land of the Midnight Sun, "Flight Over Rio" on Elegant Gypsy, and "Chasin' The Voodoo" on Casino (retitled from his composition Aba Cua on his 1976 album Flight Never Ending). For The Tubes album Now Lewis wrote "God-Bird-Change", which he reprised on Di Meola's Electric Rendezvous

Lewis plays congas, bongos, timbales, vibraslap, drums, bells, güiro, gong, Syndrum, bata, tambourine, cowbell and assorted percussion.

Selected discography

As Band Leader

• Flight Never Ending (1976)

As session player

• Carlos Santana - Caravanserai (1972)
• Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! (1972)
• Return To Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (1973)
• Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender (1973)
• Billy Joel - Turnstiles (1976)
• Todd Rundgren - Nearly Human (1982)
• xTc - Skylarking (1986)

With Al Di Meola

• Land of the Midnight Sun (1976)
• Elegant Gypsy (1977)
• Casino (1978)
• Splendido Hotel (1980)
• Electric Rendezvous (1982)

With The Tubes

• Now(1977)
• What Do You Want from Live (1978)
• Remote Control(1979)