Last month I wrote about the latest release from the reborn Fania label: Tito Puente's The Complete 78s Volume 1 . Well, today's all about Volume 2, another two disc affair that brings to life forty more classic Puente tracks lost to all of us lacking the technology to play 78 RPM records. This volume opens up with four vocal tacks sung in English, an enjoyable surprise for non-Spanish speak...
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Tito Puente (1927 - 2000) was one of the most brilliant exponents of Latin jazz. His style consisted of dance like rhythms and which were aligned with Latin Jazz and produced some of the most exhilarating performances. Puente offers a similar yet different take on Paul Desmond’s “Take Five” which puts in some extra beats and adds competing ensemble passages between brass and saxes with a fir
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with Tito Puente, here covering the perennial Cannonball & Nat Adderley favourite "Work Song", possessed of one of the finest bass lines in recorded history, here given over to the horn section. Neat key change shortly before the horn parts split in twain as well
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...I'm still on the jazzy side of things on this cloudy Earth Day morning but I've sprinkled a little Salsa on top of the darkness outside my window...it's not unlike a day I went to "*S.O.B.'s*":http://www.sobs.com/ on a whim back in the late fall of '98, when I lived in NYC...it was a Friday and a friend asked me if I'd go with her to see Tito Puente on the fly and it just so happened that ...
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Tito Puente, The Complete 78s Vol. 1 (Fania 2008)Disappeared for a bit there, been busy getting a radio show up and running for Viva that should debut in the next week or so (stay tuned for details). Let's get back to it with a very cool couple of discs that Giant Step and Fania hooked me up with -- the first time on CD for some of the dozens of 78s that mambo giant Tito Puente released from 19...
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Moozic says: El Rey, The King of Latin Music, a man who revolutionized Afro-Cuban music, Mambo, Salsa and Latin Jazz in the 1950's. He also served 3 years in the Navy during WWII. An American music legend and pioneer who will never be forgotten. So please, enjoy this MP3 from the Latin master of the sticks...Tito Puente!pop, world, jazz, latin
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| 1 T.P.'s Especial |
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| 2 Sophisticated Lady |
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| 3 Bluesette |
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| 4 Salt Song |
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| 5 On Broadway |
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