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MACHITO

AND HIS AFRO CUBANS

RELAX & MAMBO
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Frank Raul Grillo 1912 1984 was born in Florida but raised in Cuba and, as the maracas playing 'Machito', did as much as anyone to create the mambo style. He formed a band in 1941 along with his trumpet playing brother in law Mario Bauza, and for four decades was, alongside Perez Prado and Xavier Cugat, the top international name in Latin American music. Relax & Mambo offers the very best of Machito. After a trio of early band tracks we have, from 1948/9, his first historic sessions when the Afro Cubans were joined by top sax players Charlie Parker and Flip Phillips No Noise, Tanga . . .. A further quartet of Latin delights, featuring the cheeky vocals of Graciela, precedes the programme's centrepiece: all 17:12 of Chico O'Farrill's thrilling Afro Cuban Jazz Suite, which has not only Parker and Phillips, but Sweets Edison, Buddy Rich and others. Four more exuberant Latin offerings from the 50s, including George Shearing's Consternacion, complete the whole vibrant extravaganza.
Songs: Personnel Details:
 Relax And Mambo
 Sopa De Pichon
 Tingo Talango
 La Paella
 No Noise
 Mango Mangue
 Okiedoke
 Tanga
 Mambo, Mucho Mambo
 Sí Sí, No No
 Jungle Drums
 Asia Minor
 Un Poquito De Tu Amor
 Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite I. Canción
 ‘Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite Ii. Mambo
 Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite Iii. 6/8
 Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite Iv. Jazz
 Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite V. Rhumba Abierta
 Mamboscope
 Consternación
 Feeding The Chickens
 Mambo Sentimental		 Personnel: Mario Bauza, Bobby Woodlen, Johnny Nieto, Gene Johnson, Charlie Parker, Sweets Edison, Buddy Rich, more
Label: ASV
Number: 5602
Item Code: 60240
Format: CD
Genre: INTERNATIONAL
Dates: (1942-1954)
Price: $13.00  
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