with or without the whiskey, I like these records:
babarabatiri puente in percussion dance mania el rey en el puente para los rumberos ...and his concert orchestra
just to name a few.
While those records are great, apart from Dance Mania none of those are mambo. You have to reach farther back to get into Puente's mambo era.
Dizzy I have no capabilities to upload audio but check out Tito Rodriguez's early recordings on Tico, Mambo's Vol 1-6. I think they are out on cd, good luck finding originals, but real deal mambo.
prez? how? I don't know any prez albums that bang as hard as a mediocre tito record. I've listened to a buch of em too. what did I miss????
Tito is tight and polished as hell, but Prez is just loose and raw and fun. That's what got me interested in mambo in the first place. I just dig his personality as a bandleader more.
Tito is tight and polished as hell, but Prez is just loose and raw and fun. That's what got me interested in mambo in the first place. I just dig his personality as a bandleader more.
I bet if Pickwick were here he would have an opinion.
Tito, because his records don't have that "watered-down-for-the-white-folks" factor like Perez does (although Perez definitely had his killin' moments).
with or without the whiskey, I like these records:
babarabatiri puente in percussion dance mania el rey en el puente para los rumberos ...and his concert orchestra
just to name a few.
While those records are great, apart from Dance Mania none of those are mambo. You have to reach farther back to get into Puente's mambo era.
Dizzy I have no capabilities to upload audio but check out Tito Rodriguez's early recordings on Tico, Mambo's Vol 1-6. I think they are out on cd, good luck finding originals, but real deal mambo.
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I bet if Pickwick were here he would have an opinion.
Post supporting evidence!
how? I don't know any prez albums that bang as hard as a mediocre tito record. I've listened to a buch of em too. what did I miss????
alcohol, probably.
with or without the whiskey, I like these records:
babarabatiri
puente in percussion
dance mania
el rey
en el puente
para los rumberos
...and his concert orchestra
just to name a few.
Reynaldo?
While those records are great, apart from Dance Mania none of those are mambo. You have to reach farther back to get into Puente's mambo era.
Dizzy I have no capabilities to upload audio but check out Tito Rodriguez's early recordings on Tico, Mambo's Vol 1-6. I think they are out on cd, good luck finding originals, but real deal mambo.
Tito is tight and polished as hell, but Prez is just loose and raw and fun. That's what got me interested in mambo in the first place. I just dig his personality as a bandleader more.
Cosign.
And I just had to post this because it has G*ry written all over it:
http://hatdancing.ytmnd.com/
I simply can't weigh in until Madlib drops his mambo project this Spring.
Tito, because his records don't have that "watered-down-for-the-white-folks" factor like Perez does (although Perez definitely had his killin' moments).
Now this was funny.