From: Dr. Axel Barcelo Aspeitia -- Investigador (abarcelo_at_minerva.filosoficas.unam.mx)
Date: 2003-05-02 17:01:50
This is Sue Steward's MUSICA (Chronicle Books, 1999) recommendation list
on Mongo Santamaria (from the Latin Jazz chapter):
Mongo at Montreaux (Atlantic, 1971)
Watermelon man (Milestone, 1973)
Summertime - Digital at montreaux 1980 (with Dizzi Gillespie and Toots
Thielmans) (Pal=blo, 1981)
Soy yo (with Charlie Palmieri) (Concord Picante, 1987)
Our Man in Havana (with Willlie Bobo) (Prestige, 1993)
Hope it helps,
Dr. Axel Arturo Barcelo Aspeitia
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On Thu, 1 May 2003, steph99 wrote:
> 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.
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> Axé!
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