Artist: Cal Tjader
Album: Primo
Genre: Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz
Label: OJC/Fantasy
Released: 1973/1993
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Mama Guela (4:16)
- Bang Bang (4:07)
- Gringo City (5:42)
- Vibe Mambo (3:12)
- Mambo Show (5:17)
- Azucar Mama (4:19)
- La Murga Pana Mena (3:04)
- Tanga (3:13)
- El Watusi (1:49)
- Bang Bang (bonus track) (6:05)
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- Personnel:
- Cal Tjader - vibes
- Jose Merino, Louis Laurita - trumpet
- Jack Jeffers - bass trombone, tuba
- Bobby Nelson - tenor saxophone
- Charlie Palmieri - keyboards
- Bobby Rodriguez - electric bass
- Enrique Davila, Tito Puente (only # 8) - timbales
- Ismael Quintana, Victor Aviles, Victor Velasquez - percussion, vocals
- William Rodriguez - bongos
- Luis Rodriguez - conga
This CD brings back one of Cal Tjader's best late-period recordings and finds the vibraphonist adapting his 1950s Latin jazz concept to the 1970s without losing any vitality. Tjader is joined by four horns, the legendary keyboardist Charlie Palmieri, electric bassist Bobby Rodriguez, and six percussionists; Tito Puente (who plays timbales on Mario Bauza's "Tanga") and Palmieri provided the heated arrangements. A previously unreleased alternate take of "Bang Bang" is added to the CD reissue. Highly recommended to collectors of Latin jazz.
Review by Scott Yanow