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Mongo Santamaria
CD $11.98 $8.98
RELEASE DATE: 27 May 1993
OJCCD-281-2
LABEL: ORIGINAL JAZZ CLASSICS
GENRE: WORLD & LATIN
In the early 1960s a geographically strange matching of Afro-Cuban music and San Francisco jazz occurred--mostly in the Treat Street headquarters and studios of Fantasy Records. The jazz axis of this strange revolution was Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaria; revolving around the axis were Cal Tjader (particularly), Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete, and others. This recording is among the earliest-ever to attempt a display of the charanga instrumental and vocal approach to Cuban popular music. Also included: the mambo, pachanga, descarga. . . and some magnificent flute, trumpet, violin, saxophone, and (of course) percussion interludes. Besides Santamaria, such now-famed names as Pete Escovedo, Bayardo Velarde, Willie Bobo, and “El Flaco” Hernandez are in the ten-piece orchestra. This recording is as fresh--or fresher--today as it was 40 years ago.
with Felix "Pupi" Legarreta, José "Chombo" Silva, Rolando Lozano, Louis Valizán, Marcus Cabuto, René Hernandez, Willie Bobo, and others
TRACKLISTING
- 1. Que Maravilloso
- 2. En La Felicidad
- 3. Pachanga Pa Ti
- 4. Tuli Bamba
- 5. Mambo De Cuco
- 6. El Bote
- 7. Pito Pito
- 8. Guaguanco Mania
- 9. Ja, Ja-ja
- 10. Tula Hula
- 11. Dimelo
- 12. A La Luna Me Voy
- 13. Para Ti (Alternate)
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