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ORQUESTA MARIANO MERCERON- EXITOS DE ORO

L. Dequesada | JAMAICA,, NY United States | 12/03/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"During the early 40's Cuban clarinet, saxophone virtuoso and band leader Mariano Merceron traveled to Mexico and settled there until about 1950. He briefly returned to Cuba and during the mid 50's returned to Mexico never to leave again, he died there in 1976. Although his big jazz band in Cuba and Mexico featured a varied repertoire, he mostly excelled in playing the danzon and because of it became one of Mexico's leading danzoneras. During the late forties and early 50's the Mariano Merceron Big Band featured Cuban celebrity singers like Beny More, Pacho Alonso and Fernando Alvarez and featured the great composer Juan Bruno Tarraza on piano. It can be said that this great band was at its perfection and talent peak when it featured all of the above in Cuba during 1951 and 1952! In this Orfeon CD, Mariano features "danzon" favorites on recordings made during his post RCA Victor years. Mariano Merceron was definitely one of Cuba's leading musicians and composers, who like Perez Prado and Enrique Jorrin, greatly influenced Cuban music."