Mongo Santamaria - Skins (1989)

voyeurnice · 10 Styczeń 2017

Artist: Mongo Santamaria

Title: Skins (Comp., Remastered)

Year Of Release: 1989 (Rec. 1962, 64)

Label: Milestone Records [MCD 47038-2]

Genre: Latin Jazz / Soul Jazz / Afro-Cuban

Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)

Mp3

Total Time: 77:52

Total Size: 496 MB

194 MB (Scans)

This single CD has all of the contents of the two Mongo Santamaria Riverside albums originally titled Mongo Explodes and Go, Mongo! The music was last available as a two-LP set also titled Skins. The 1964 session, oddly programmed first, finds Santamaria on conga and bongos at the head of a ten-piece band also including trumpeter Marty Sheller, then-unknown flutist Hubert Laws (also featured on piccolo and tenor), Bobby Capers on alto and baritone, and a seven-piece rhythm section with five percussionists.

Cornetist Nat Adderley guests on three of the ten numbers, which are all group originals, including four songs from Sheller. The early dates (Mongo's first as the leader of a fairly jazz-oriented Latin group) have Santamaria leading a completely different band, a nonet with just three percussionists. Most notable among the personnel are the young Chick Corea on piano and Pat Patrick, on leave from Sun Ra's band, as one of the two saxophonists. This time around, Mongo contributed four of the nine fairly obscure numbers. Although some of the songs on the 1964 date were put together in hopes of duplicating the commercial success of "Watermelon Man" (none succeeded), the music still sounds fairly fresh and lively. An excellent introduction to Mongo Santamaria's viable brand of Afro-Cuban jazz.

Tracklist:

Mongo Explodes (Riverside 3530) 39:51

01 Skins 03:33

02 Fatback 02:31

03 Hammer Head 03:27

04 Dot, Dot, Dot 05:09

05 Dirty Willie 05:26

06 Sweet 'Tater Pie 02:42

07 Bemb?? Blue 06:40

08 Dulce Amore 05:09

09 Tacos 02:35

10 Corn Bread Guajira 02:39

Go, Mongo! (Riverside 423) 38:01

11 Tumba Le Le 04:17

12 Happy Now 03:10

13 Country Song 03:28

14 Congo Blue 05:46

15 Carmela 05:24

16 Hombre 03:34

17 Chombolero 04:38

18 Not Hardly 04:18

19 African Song 03:26

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