Cbr Latin

Latin music to dance with the orchestra of the great English conductor and arranger Edmundo Ros, who died last year. The album LP gathers twelve recognized subjects that Ros becomes a Latin festival, with a predominance of samba or mambo rhythms and a slight concession to chachacha. In his musical arrangements, Ros always boasts support from the percussion, while he likes to interpret in their own voice among the topics. Inimitable style, infectious rhythm, nice vocal timbre and support of Brazilian and Cuban music dress this recording nerve and strength that only the great conductors know how to print to Latin music.

This album collects twelve songs that invite you to dance to Latin music. The musical arrangements were prepared by Roland Shaw. The adaptation care of all the issues to Latin American rhythms. Above the musical style of some of the original scores Ros just offers great classics in styles such as cha-cha, mambo, bossa and even bolero or tango, which are a delight played by his orchestra. Ros know in depth the tonal richness of his personality instruments and uses thereof creating unique exchanges between them.

Album dedicated to ballroom dancing within the style called 'Latin' having specialties chacha, samba, rumba, bolero, paso doble, mambo and merengue, with a rhythmic style tending towards disco music. Particularly in the paso doble musical pattern clearly deviates from the typical played by Spanish bands and ensembles.

Album recorded in September 1958 at a jazz club in San Francisco, the Blackhawk, where used to act Tjader with various musical groups after the dissolution of his previous 'Modern Mambo Quintet'. For this occasion Cal formed another quintet being accompanied by four musicians who were definitely headlining their specialties: the Cuban Mongo Santamaria (come to the U.S. 10 years ago and had worked with Perez Prado and Tito Puente), with congas and bongos; the New Yorker born in the 'Spanish Harlem' Willie Bobo with drummer and toms especially; bassist Al McKibbon, who had worked with Dizzy Gillespie in bop jazz and became a devotee of Latin jazz, and Californian pianist Vince Guaraldi, who had made his first recording in 1953 with Cal Tjader and had joined him in 1956.