Tito Puente
The Mambo King: His 100th Album
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AMG Review of The Mambo King: His 100th Album
John Storm Roberts
All Music GuidePuente's 100th album is a celebration of that fact, with a procession of vocalists, most of whom -- like Celia Cruz -- were professionally associated with him at one time or another. That doesn't make for a very tight concept, but recordings by musicians of his generation didn't have concepts, they had music. So does this one, including a minor riot with Celia Cruz riding a big, burly mambo arrangement by a band full of just everybody, and a wonderful "El Bribon del Aguacero" with Chocolate Armenteros on trumpet.
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