Machito Orchestra - Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 17:13
Size: 39.4 MB
Styles: Latin jazz
Year: 1951/2005
Art: Front

[2:54] 1. Cancion
[3:14] 2. Mambo
[2:39] 3. Mambo2
[2:11] 4. 6/8
[3:40] 5. Jazz
[2:33] 6. Rhumba Abierta

The Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite is largely remembered as a Norman Granz commission. The reason for this is that the legendary Charlie Parker participated in the first Suite, completed and recorded in December, 1950. Moreover, even many of the musical arts cognoscenti will recall this first Suite as music performed by Machito. Most listeners forget that it was Chico O’Farrill who wrote, arranged and conducted the piece first for Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra. ~Raul de Gama

Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite

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