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 firm yet flexible Latin beat. The tenor saxist plays a solo that becomes more and more fiery before the flugelhorn comes in to cool things down temperature wise. Then we hear from Tito himself playing a flashy solo on timbales which leads into a restatement of the main theme before its rhythmic ending.