During the late 1940s bandleaders such as Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton began to incorporate elements of the Latin music as well as Latin percussion instruments and instrumentalists in their bands. Dizzy hired Cuban hand drummer Machito as a member of his band, recording stylized but exciting music. Kenton began to tour with a Latin-influenced arrangements and compositions. Drummers of the time learned to play "commercial" beats such as the samba and the mambo on the full set, but when coupled with an entire Latin percussion section, as was the case with some of the Dizzy recordings, the drummer merely kept time, delegating most of the work to the Latin percussionist. The interest of jazz musicians in Latin and Latin-influenced music continued, becoming a part of the hard-bop