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Machito brought the mambo from Havana to New York in 1941 but it wasn’t until 1954 that this dance really took off in mainstream America. In 1953, Cuban violinist Enrique Jorrin created a slower kind of mambo which he named the cha-cha-cha, its name suggested by the shuffling of the feet of hundreds of dancers. The cha-cha-cha was easier to dance than the mambo and its characteristic 1-2, 1-2-3 pulse literally swept through the dance floors, firstly of Havana and later, New York. It began to filter into pop and rhythm and blues in 1955 after the release of Perez Prado’s million seller Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom Time. It was this rhythm combined with the New Orleans second line beat that formed the basis of the Stax and Motown sound and the more complex rhythms of funk in the 1960s. And where would rock be without the cha-cha-cha? Respect, Satisfaction, Wild Thing, Louie Louie all owe a debt to Jorrin’s cha-cha-cha beat. -
Disc 1 Joe Swift - That's Your Last Boogie T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues Skeets Tolbert - Rhumba Blues Pee Wee Crayton - Blues After Hours Edgar Hayes - Fat Meat 'n' Greens Johnny Otis Orchestra - Mambo Boogie Lowell Fulson - Back Home Blues Lloyd Glenn - Cuba Doll Ray Charles - Heartbreaker Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog B.B. King - Woke Up This Morning Professor Longhair - Hey Now Baby Dave Bartholomew - Country Boy Clarence Garlow - Bon Ton Roula Sugar Boy Crawford - Jock-O-Mo Fats Domino - Mardi Gras In New Orleans Lloyd Price - Tell Me Pretty Baby Billy Wright - Hey Little Girl Kid King’s Combo - Banana Split Louis Jordan - Early In The Morning Chris Powell’s Five Blue Flames - I Come From Jamaica Sonny Thompson - Blues Mambo The Ray-O-Vacs - My Baby's Gone Jimmy Reed - Roll And Rumba Muddy Waters - I Can’t Be Satisfied Champion Jack Dupree - Mexican Reminiscences Disc 2 Lazy Lester - I'm A Lover Not A Fighter Slim Harpo - I've Got Love If You Want It Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working Dale Hawkins - Susie Q Wynona Carr - Jump Jack, Jump! Guitar Junior - The Crawl Big "T" Tyler - King Kong André Williams - The Greasy Chicken Art Neville - Arabian Love Call Bobby Freeman - Do You Wanna Dance B.B. King - Ruby Lee Tommy Ridgley - When I Meet My Girl Fats Domino - I'm Walking Paul Gayten - For You My Love Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues Richard Berry - Louie, Louie Charles Sheffield - Wicked Old Fever Bill Doggett - Ram Bunk Shush Smokey Hogg - Good Mornin' Baby Otis Rush - All Your Love Champion Jack Dupree - The Wrong Woman Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Frenzy Bo Diddley - Hush Your Mouth Larry Williams - Bad Boy (Junior Cha Cha Cha) Leonard Carbo - Pig Tails And Ribbons Eddie Lang - She's Mine All Mine Screamin' Joe Neal - Tell Me Pretty Baby The Champs - Tequila Lavern Baker - It's So Fine Albert Collins - The Freeze Memphis Slim - Guitar Cha Cha Cha Harry Belafonte - Star-O Disc 3 Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Part 1) Texas Ray - Mary Ann Arthur Alexander - The Girl That Radiates That Charm Junior Wells - Messin' With The Kid Willie Jones - Where's My Money Little Willie John - Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me) Link Wray & The Wraymen - Raw-Hide James Brown - And I Do Just What I Want Davey Cortez - Hurricane Ruth Brown - I Don't Know The Coasters - Poison Ivy Teddy Randazzo - Let The Sunshine In Curtis Knight - Voodoo Woman Tal Miller - Only Sixteen Renaldo Jackson - Congolese Tip The Orioles - Hey Little Woman Barrett Strong - You Know What To Do Bo Diddley - Crawdad Charles Brown And Amos Milburn - Educated Fool The Isley Brothers - St Louis Blues Cozy Cole - Topsy II Bobby Hebb - Night Train To Memphis Andre Williams - Shoo-Doo Phil Upchurch - Cha Cha Cha Blues Buddy Guy - Gully Hully Louis Brooks & His Hi-Toppers - Frisco. Huey "Piano" Smith - We Like Birdland The Olympics - Well…(Baby Please Don't Go) Ford Eaglin - Yours Truly Chuck Berry Mad Lad Gary U.S. Bonds - I Wanna Holler Disc 4 T.N.T. Tribble - Annie's Mambo Cozy Cole - Cozy's Mambo Cherokee & Band - Mambo Blues Classie Ballou - The Crazy Mambo Billy Taylor Trio - Early Morning Mambo Lionel Hampton - Hamp´s Mambo Linda Hayes with The Platters - I Just Wanna Mambo Jimmy Forrest - Night Train Mambo J.J. Jones - Night Train Mambo The Miracletones - Mambo Train Larry Liggett - Perdido Mambo Tiny Grimes - Showboat Mambo Jack Costanzo & His Orchestra - Peter Gunn Mambo Tony Martinez & His Mambo Combo - Robin's Mambo Big John Greer - We Want to See Santa Mambo Buddy Lucas - Mambo Blues Mickey Baker - Guitar Mambo Edna McGriff & The Tomcats - Mambo Baby Shake Keane & His Highlifers - Mambo Indio Manny Duran & His Sextet - Johnny Comes Marching Mambo Bill Doggett - Real Gone Mambo Walter Ward & The Challengers - Mambo Beat Chuck Higgins - Blues 'n' Mambo James Moody - Mambo With Moody Yma Sumac - Bo Mambo The Bop-A-Loos - South Parkway Mambo Arcano Y Sus Maravillas - Goza Mi Mambo Pérez Prado - Cuban Mambo Nat Brooks & The Mambo Boys - Mambo Blues Choker Campbell - Jackie Mambo Disc 5 Fay Simmons - Big Joe Mambo Rollee McGill - Helena Mambo Charlie "Little Jazz" Ferguson - Hi-Beam Mambo J.J. Jones - After Hours Mambo Mel Gray - Mambo Jungle Harmonica ‘Blues King’ Harris - Blues King Mambo Dolly Wade - Mambo Baby Mickey Baker - Guitarambo Lawrence Peel & The Filatones - Filatone's Mambo Classie Ballou - Mambo Robert Banks & The Waileros - Mambo Blues Sonny Burke Orchestra - Mamboogie Kid King's Combo - Mambino Chris Powell - Sandman Mambo Esther Sutherland - Clock Mambo Buddy Johnson - Slide's Mambo Vin Strong - Mambo's Got the Blues Chaz + 2 - Mambo Twist Paul Williams - Don't Teach Me To Mambo Ernie Fields Combo - T-Town Mambo Otis Freeman - Mambo Arribique The Celebrities - Mambo Daddy Ellie Russell & Sy Oliver - St Louis Blues Mambo The Five Tinos - Mambo Baby Larry Liggett - Junior's Mambo Gene Casey & The Cubanos - Avalon Mambo Carlos Molina - Dragnet Mambo Juan Toradez & His Amigos - Lucky Mambo Jimmy Smith - Judo Mambo Joe Holiday - Mambo Holiday -
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This little gem… the extensive, well-written accompanying notes could usefully be used by anyone lecturing on the subjects. Brian Smith R2 If this collection doesn’t put an umbrella in your pina colada then you should see a doctor. There’s the genuinely hard-core instrumental Latin gems bristling with brass such as the Griffin Brothers with Griff’s Mambo, and Illinois Jacquet’s terrific sexy sax on Mambocito Mio. And if you’re thinking this might be all snake hips and exotic women’s hats piled with fruit, there are even Latin tracks from Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf and Elmore James. As a collection to dance to, this is a brilliant idea. Olé! Git down and boogie…er…mambo. Blues Matters RANDB012 Produced as CD-R (professionally manufactured recordable CD printed for short run) as opposed to CD-P (professionally manufactured pressed CDs made in quantities of 500+). All CDs whether CD-R or CD-P are 100% guaranteed error free. Discs will always be replaced if any problems are encountered. 24-page booklet included -
Africa and Latin America together have moulded American popular music since the beginning of the twentieth century. African influences have led to the development of jazz, gospel and blues while successive waves of dance music from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Jamaica have largely determined its rhythm. Dance forms and musical stylings such as habanera, bolero, tango, rumba, conga, samba, baion, calypso, mambo, charleston, cha-cha-cha, bossa nova and twistall have their origins outside the USA. This compilation aims to demonstrate just how far back the roots of Latin jazz stretch, well beyond the partnership that Dizzy Gillespie forged with Chano Pozo in founding cubop, the post-war marriage of bebop with Cuban music. 8 PAGE BOOKLET INCLUDED RANDB009 Produced as CD-R (professionally manufactured recordable CD printed for short run) as opposed to CD-P (professionally manufactured pressed CDs made in quantities of 500+). All CDs whether CD-R or CD-P are 100% guaranteed error free. Discs will always be replaced if any problems are encountered. -
This little gem… the extensive, well-written accompanying notes could usefully be used by anyone lecturing on the subjects. Brian Smith R2 If this collection doesn’t put an umbrella in your pina colada then you should see a doctor. There’s the genuinely hard-core instrumental Latin gems bristling with brass such as the Griffin Brothers with Griff’s Mambo, and Illinois Jacquet’s terrific sexy sax on Mambocito Mio. And if you’re thinking this might be all snake hips and exotic women’s hats piled with fruit, there are even Latin tracks from Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf and Elmore James. As a collection to dance to, this is a brilliant idea. Olé! Git down and boogie…er…mambo. Blues Matters 24-page booklet included RANDB012 Produced as CD-R (professionally manufactured recordable CD printed for short run) as opposed to CD-P (professionally manufactured pressed CDs made in quantities of 500+). All CDs whether CD-R or CD-P are 100% guaranteed error free. Discs will always be replaced if any problems are encountered. -
This is slippery and seductive music with that tricky undercurrrent that rumba beats bring, and to hear how these diverse musicians adapted and bent it to their own styles is just a whole heap of fun. More than that though, if you take the time to read the liner note essay, this collection is instructive history. But history that will put a smile on your face and dip in your step. Elsewhere.co.nz I thoroughly recommend this one…all tracks are pretty great…a really excellent compilation…contains tracks you wouldn’t necessarily associate with latin music…it messes together very, very well. Mark Lamarr BBC Radio 2 RANDB010 -
This is a delicious 2CD production with a 28-page booklet choked with information, pictures (the Earl Palmer one is terrific) and a discography that indicates the rhythm pattern associated with the song. The appendix gives instruction on how to speak aloud the rhythm of the beats and tap out the accented beats with your hands (difficult or what?)...Let me assure you on the majority of tracks my foot jumps and I want to dance...The tracks do not appear to be common to the vast amount of PD releases...CD 2 is very interesting with a different feel to your normal run of the mill PD...due to their late 50s/early 60s recording dates...It’s the more obscure tracks...that grab you...The number one and most essential is the quality of the recordings. They are first class and on a personal note, I now have the best copy in my collection of ‘The Freeze’ by Albert Collins. There is a lot to discover and long established collectors will have the opportunity to refresh their musical diet by checking this compilation out. Highly recommended to all. Keith Scoffham Blues & Rhythm R012 -
'This compilation shows how Latin music's irresistible rhythms first took hold of the blues and brought teenagers black and white on to the dance floor'. RANDB026 - Sale!
The mambo was born in Cuba in 1938, of African and European parentage. It arrived in New York ten years later via Havana and Mexico City. 1954 was the year of the mambo in America as dancers flocked to the ballrooms to see exciting new bands led by Machito, Tito Puente, Perez Prado and Tito Rodriguez. To cash in on the craze, record companies encouraged their R&B artists to come up with songs in a Latin vein and to include the word mambo in the title. Latin rhythms have infiltrated every branch of popular music, but none has had such a wide ranging influence as the rumba. Its 3-3-2 rhythm, combined with the New Orleans second line beat, formed the basis of the Stax and Motown sound and the more complex rhythms of funk in the 1960s. RANDB041
