Rumba Para Monk
by Jerry Gonz谩lez & The Fort Apache Band
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 January 1988
- Label: Sunnyside
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:11:52
- Community rating: 4.55/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Rumba Para Monk' recasts the compositions of Thelonious Monk in Afro-Cuban forms, with 'Bye-Ya' as a mozambique, 'Nutty' as a son montuno and 'Little Rootie Tootie' as a guaguanc贸. The Fort Apache quintet of Jerry Gonz谩lez, his brother Andy, Carter Jefferson, Larry Willis and Steve Berrios won the French Acad茅mie du Jazz award for Jazz Record of the Year with it, while Down Beat's readers named the group the year's top world beat act.
Genres
Descriptors: percussive, rhythmic, virtuosic, piano, groove-laden
Tracklist
- Monk'S Mood (11:13)
- Bye-Ya (6:43)
- Nutty (5:37)
- Little Rootie Tootie (9:45)
- Misterioso (10:04)
- Ugly Beauty (7:26)
- Reflections (9:30)
- Jackie-Ing (11:30)
Credits
- Steve Berrios - drums, bata, timbales, claves, shekere, bells
- Russ Musto - liner notes [booklet notes], management [artist representative]
- Christopher Drukker - design [album]
- A.T. Michael MacDonald - engineer [mixing]
- Jim Anderson - engineer [recording]
- Francois Zalacain - executive-producer
- Kathy Rahill - photography by [additional]
- Sandra Eisner - photography by [cover]
- Thelonious Monk - written-by
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