Mambo Birdland

by Tito Puente

Mambo Birdland cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 September 1999
  • Label: RMM
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:12:21
  • Community rating: 3.94/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Mambo Birdland' presents Tito Puente, the Nuyorican timbalero who defined Latin jazz and mambo for American audiences, leading his orchestra live. Recorded in the year before his death, the album documents Puente's precision big-band arrangements of the mambo repertoire.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, acoustic, traditional, improvisation, live

Tracklist

  1. Mambo Birdland (Live 1999/Birdland) (5:36)
  2. Juventud Del Presente (Live 1999/Birdland) (5:39)
  3. Ban Ban Quere (Live 1999/Birdland) (5:36)
  4. Como Esta Miguel (Live 1999/Birdland) (5:43)
  5. Cha Cha Cha Con Mambo (Live 1999/Birdland) (8:53)
  6. Guaguanco Margarito (Live 1999/Birdland) (7:22)
  7. Mi Mamita (Live 1999/Birdland) (6:22)
  8. Mambo Gozon (Live 1999/Birdland) (6:15)
  9. Oye Mi Guaganco (Live 1999/Birdland) (7:57)
  10. Ran Kan Kan (Live 1999/Birdland) (7:04)
  11. Oye Como Va (Live 1999/Birdland) (5:54)

Credits

  • Louis Bauzo - bata

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