From: steph99 (beleza_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 2003-05-01 23:50:41
I'm on a research kick. Anyone know anything about the 1976 album "Sofrito" by
Mongo Santamaria? All I can find on it is that is was nominated for a Grammy,
and may have been re-issued in 2000. I tracked it down via the song "O Mi
Shango" from the Soul Jazz comp Nu Yorica 2. That track is a classic, one of my
absolute, all-time, change-your-life favorites and I want to know if the rest of
the album is worthwhile or garbage. If you have any suggestions of albums by
Mongo or others with that same incredibly vital, fresh, but also richly...what's
the word I want.... Authenticity is the wrong word. Reverence to tradition?
Anyway, that spirit of being totally alive, original, and steeped in the past at
the same time, lay it on me. I really need to beef--well, tofu--up on my Eddie
Palmieri, for example.
Axé!