Re: [acid-jazz] Sofrito - Mongo Santamaria

From: Dr. Axel Barcelo Aspeitia -- Investigador (abarcelo_at_minerva.filosoficas.unam.mx)
Date: 2003-05-02 17:01:50

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    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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