Mongo Santamaria - Live At Jazz Alley (1990) {2003, Hybrid SACD}
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 500 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 226 Mb
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Afro-Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz, World Fusion | Concord Picante #SACD-1016-6
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 500 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 226 Mb
Full Scans | 01:04:46 | RAR 5% Recovery
Afro-Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz, World Fusion | Concord Picante #SACD-1016-6
This is as close to Latin purist Mongo as we have heard in recent years, an eight-piece salsa band – including several members of the 1997 Tito Puente ensemble, like trumpeter Ray Vega, altoist Bobby Porcelli and tenorman Mitch Frohman – playing a brace of Mongo classics and Latin jazz pieces live before a hushed crowd in Seattle's Jazz Alley. There are no pop covers, one electric instrument (a bass), lots of extended jazz solos (Porcelli and Frohman really burn on the pioneering Afro-Cuban classic "Manteca"), and an unusual (for Mongo) emphasis on the timbales on many tracks, which shoves the rhythms closer to the salsified Puente manner.