Para Los Rumberos (Remastered) Ernesto Tito Puentes

• 1 Para los Rumberos 04:00
• 2 Niña y Señora 04:26
• 3 Guayaba 02:35
• 4 Ya No Me Quieres 03:39
• 5 Días en el Palladium 03:12
• 6 Salsa y Sabor 03:00
• 7 China 02:55
• 8 Batuka 03:20
• 9 Contentoso 03:48
• 10 El Catire 05:42
• Total Runtime 36:37

Info for Para Los Rumberos (Remastered)

Tito Puente - Para Los Rumberos" is a classic Latin jazz album released in 1956 by Tito Puente, the legendary Puerto Rican percussionist and bandleader known as the "King of Mambo." The album features a collection of upbeat and danceable tracks, including the title track "Para Los Rumberos" and other popular tracks such as "Mambo Beat," "3-D Mambo," and "Hong Kong Mambo." With its infectious rhythms and grooves, the album helped to popularize Latin jazz and influenced countless musicians in the genre. Tito Puente's virtuosic performances on the timbales and his inventive arrangements continue to inspire new generations of Latin jazz musicians.

Craft Latino is proud to present an all-analog reissue of Para Los Rumberos, a truly magnificent recording showcasing Tito Puente’s talent and musical mastery on its belated 50th anniversary. Consisting of ten diverse tracks, the album was recorded at Pat Jacques Broadway Recording Studios in New York City in 1972. Puente’s love of Afro-Cuban music shines through a variety of genres from Mambo to Guaracha to Cha-Cha-Cha making this album a delight for listeners and dancers as well.

Puente opens with an updated version of his “Para los Rumberos” track, slowing the original blistering fast rumba abierta tempo of the 1955 version to a respectable mambo tempo. Its glorious war chant: “Vamos rumbero, que la rumba ya va empezar," announces that it is time to hit the dance floor. A skilled arranger, Puente builds the tension with a short phrase in the piano and bass then augments it with the horns repeating it in layers. It finally explodes with a short timbale solo. “Niña y Señora” is based on an old Cuban rumba-guaguancó that is slowed slightly to a mambo/guaracha tempo. Listen to the close-knit vocal harmony of Meñique, Santos Colón and Yayo El Indio throughout the album, vocalese at its best. Meanwhile, Puente’s “Guayaba” is classic cha-cha-cha. Chico O’Farill’s arrangement of “Ya No Me Quieres” displays Puente’s artistry on vibes as he expresses himself melodically on this classic bolero. The entire range of genres and rhythms played throughout highlights Puente’s mastery of instruments and Afro-Cuban music.

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