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Conga Kings
Jazz Descargas
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Latin Music

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Un Poco Loco
2. Tin Tin Deo
3. Caravan
4. Tumbao De Tamorito
5. A Night In Tunisia
6. Oye Como Va
7. Manteca
8. Conga Descarga
9. The Peanut Vendor
10. Chocolate Descarga

CD Details

All Artists: Conga Kings
Title: Jazz Descargas
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Chesky Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2001
Re-Release Date: 8/28/2001
Album Type: Live
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Latin Music
Styles: Latin Jazz, Latin Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 090368021724

Synopsis

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The reigning superstars of Latin percussion, Conga Kings Candido Camero, Carlos "Patato" Valdes, and Giovanni Hidalgo have among them worked with everybody from Tito Puente to Dizzy Gillespie. This CD finds the trio performing Latin and jazz classics in the descarga format: a type of Cuban jam-cum-improv session. With the zesty arrangements of ex-Machito arranger Ray Santos, the congueros--along with alto saxophonist Phil Woods, salsa trombonist Jimmy Bosch, and trumpeter Chocolate--turn classic tracks like Bud Powell's "Un Poco Loco," Dizzy Gillespie's "Night in Tunisia," and the Duke Ellington/Juan Tizol number "Caravan" into fast and folkloric showstoppers. On "Conga Descarga," the players engage in a heavy percussion discussion that illustrates the jaw-dropping power of Afro-Cuban music. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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CD Reviews

Great way to start listening to Afro-Cuban music

Bill Hatch | Auburn, CA United States | 11/22/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Humbled by the opportunity to be the first of (I believe) many who will praise this disk. With apologies for all the afro-cuban music I haven't heard, this is the best I've ever heard. It sounds like an inspired gathering of these legendary performers on a day when everyone was very, very into the groove, muy muy en el gran tumbao.I would compare it with some of the best American jazz albums I've ever heard (vintage Lester Young, Holiday, Armstrong, Oscar Peterson -- in their modes). I believe it might be a superb introduction to afro-cuban because the rhythmic layers are, in this case, transparent -- you hear these rhythms as the modes of musical thinking they have always been. But the horns, flutes and tres (sort-of guitar) lines "overhead" are the best I've ever heard in this genre, particularly Chocolate's trumpet solo on "Tin Tin Deo.""