Artist: Tito Puente
Album: Goza Mi Timbal
Genre: Latin Jazz
Label: Concord Picante
Released: 1989
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Airegin (Rollins) - 4:16
- Cha Cha Cha (Valdes) - 6:40
- Pent Up House (Rollins) - 5:49
- Picadillo a lo Puente (Puente) - 3:53
- All Blues (Davis-Brown) - 5:16
- Ode to Cachao (Puente) - 6:39
- Straight, No Chaser (Monk) - 4:59
- Lambada Timbales (Puente) - 4:10
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- Personnel:
- Tito Puente - timbales, timbalito, marimba, vibraphone, chekere
- Sonny Bravo - piano
- Sam Burtis - trombone
- Mary Fettig, Mitch Frohman - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
- Robbie Kwock - trumpet, flugelhorn
- Jose Madera - congas, percussion
- Bobby Rodriguez - bass
- David Piro Rodriguez - trumpet, flugelhorn
- Johnny Rodriguez - bongos, percussion
Special Guests: - Rebeca Mauleon - synthesizer
- John Santos - chekere, bongos
This Concord CD was Tito Puente's 99th as a leader and the music is particularly strong. Four jazz standards alternate with a quartet of Puente's originals and Chucho Valdes' "Cha Cha Cha," all of which are potentially good vehicles for jazz improvisations (although "Ode" and "Lambada" are dominated by group vocals). There are plenty of fine solos throughout by the five horn players and the three or four-piece percussion section keeps the rhythms infectious. In the world of Latin-jazz, Tito Puente has had few peers.
Review by Scott Yanow