Cuban Fire!
by Stan Kenton
- Type: Album
- Released: 1956-01-01
- Label: Capitol
- Country: United States
- Length: 54:06
- Community rating: 3.63/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Embracing the immense, highly syncopated power of Latin percussion, the notoriously bombastic bandleader commissions Johnny Richards to compose a sprawling, six-part suite. The arrangements aggressively fuse the screaming, dissonant brass textures of his progressive jazz aesthetic with a massive, dedicated Afro-Cuban rhythm section. The wildly explosive, densely polyphonic recording stands as one of the most successful and genuinely thrilling crossover projects of the big band era.
Genres
Descriptors: Melodic, Instrumental, Rhythmic, Acoustic, Party, orchestral, percussive, rhythmic, ensemble, virtuosic
Tracklist
- Fuego Cubano (6:02)
- El Congo Valiente (5:53)
- Recuerdos (5:01)
- Quien Sabe (4:49)
- La Guera Baila (5:09)
- La Suerte De Los Tontos (Fortune Of Fools) (4:20)
- Tres Corazones (2:59)
- Malibu Moonlight (3:51)
- El Panzon (4:34)
- Carnival (5:21)
- Wagon (3:05)
- Early Hours (Lady Luck) (2:56)
Credits
- Stan Kenton - primary artist, piano, conductor, orchestra
- Nory Comp猫re - artwork
- Curtis Counce - bass
- Willie Rodriguez - bongos
- Roger Mozian - claves
- Tommy Lopez, Sr. - congas
- Mel Lewis - drums
- Vinnie Tanno - flugelhorn, trumpet
- Irving Rosenthal - french horn
- Julius Watkins - french horn
- Ralph Blaze - guitar
- Bill Coss - liner notes
- Mario Alvarez - maracas
- Bill Perkins - saxophone
- Billy Root - saxophone
- Lennie Niehaus - saxophone
- Lucky Thompson - saxophone
- George Laguna - timbales
- George Gaber - timpani
- Sol Gubin - timpani
- Bob Fitzpatrick - trombone
- Carl Fontana - trombone
- Don Kelly - trombone
- Kent Larsen - trombone
- Al Mattaliano - trumpet
- Ed Leddy - trumpet
- Lee Katzman - trumpet
- Phil Gilbert - trumpet
- Sam Noto - trumpet
- Jay McAllister - tuba
- Johnny Richards - written-by
- Franko Caligiuri - design
- Ted Daryll - liner notes, additional producer