Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Tito Puente Title: Mambo Birdland Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Rmm Records Original Release Date: 9/28/1999 Release Date: 9/28/1999 Album Type: Live Genres: International Music, Jazz, Latin Music Styles: Caribbean & Cuba, Cuba, Mambo, Big Band, Latin Jazz, Latin Pop, Tropical, Salsa Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 602828404727, 3322428404725, 601215783728, 602828404741 |
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 | Tito Puente Mambo Birdland Genres: International Music, Jazz, Latin Music
Fittingly, Tito Puente's final album (save for a collaboration with Eddie Palmieri) finds the great bandleader-percussionist taking a young audience into the past with an in-concert set of classics including the title trac... more » |
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Amazon.com Music Reviews Fittingly, Tito Puente's final album (save for a collaboration with Eddie Palmieri) finds the great bandleader-percussionist taking a young audience into the past with an in-concert set of classics including the title track, "Ban Ban Quere," and, of course, "Oye Como Va." The energy never wanes as Puente visits his many styles ("Cha Cha Cha Mambo," for one) and tempos. Particularly hot is the percussive breakdown on "Guaguanco Margarito," which is both smashing and subtle in the way of only the very finest jazz. "I'm gettin' to ya!" the ebullient Mambo King exclaims more than once between songs; he sounds as if he were just as pleased as in the midcentury years he spent inventing this music. Mambo Birdland won a 2000 Grammy (for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Performance), Puente's fifth. --Rickey Wright Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsThe King and his big band...THe BEST! 12/09/1999 (5 out of 5 stars) "Songs from his 50's and 60's albums played with his big band and recorded with present technology make for one of the best albums of THE KING. I only miss the voice of the late great vocalist Santitos Colon." Addicting Latin Jazz by The Legend! Vasilius Trokis | San Francisco, CA | 08/23/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "I am very honored to have met and shaken Tito Puente's hand in 1997 when he came out to Yoshi's Jazz Club here in the Oakland-San Francisco area. Much like his energetic and charmastically flawless performance that evening, "Mambo Birdland" is a definitive live performance by him. Once more, interludes of speech by the Timbale Master is a wonderful addition considering that this is his last album (aside from his "Obra Nuestra" with pianist Eddie Palmieri).Each track is definitely upbeat and pure Latino jazz (Tito was known for loathing the term "salsa" to describe this great genre of music), graced with great vocals by Frankie Morales and a spectacular Latin jazz orchestra. Tito combines many traditional rhythms and beats like the cha-cha ("Cha-Cha-Cha Mambo"), cumbia, mambo, and more. His back-up orchestra is also absolutely incredible, each piece of brass is distinguishing and impeccable in their playing. Overall, this is one fine recording that's a must for anyone's music collection. Most of all, this final recording by Tito Puente is an awesome testimony of how grand a figure he IS to the overall spectrum of music. Yes, Tito will be missed gravely, but like Ella Fitzgerald, Tito Rodriguez and Count Basie, their awesome body of work lives on!" TITO PUENTE- MAMBO IN BIRDLAND luis de quesada | jamaica, new york United States | 06/02/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "I wish to honor the departed "King of Latin Music", Tito Puente. In this great album, Tito brought us back to the glory days at the Palladium, the Tropicana, etc. It was in his nature to please his fans, so he gave us this gem featuring some of his old hits from the 50's. Like a fan mentioned, the voice of Santitos Colon is about the only thing missing from this great album! Farewell and God Bless You, dear old friend!"
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