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Los 3 Amigos - The Master of Mexican Requinto Guitar (1998) {Seven Seas Japan KICC 5242}
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© 1998 Seven Seas / King Record Japan | KICC 5242
World Music / Mexican / Vocals / Folk / Bolero / Requinto Guitar / Guitar

A collection of Latin masterpieces using Mexican high-pitched guitars and Lekinto guitars.

Exotic and Latin albums were big deals in the 1950s and early '60s, and singers as diverse as Dean Martin, Lena Horne, and Peggy Lee were recording with castanets and bongo drums. Peggy Lee was so successful at the style that she cut two albums of light pseudo-Latin jazz in 1960. Like Peggy Lee, Julie London combined a restrained vocal approach with jazz phrasing and a cool attitude with icy sex appeal. But while London had Lee's stripped-down musical approach, she just didn't share her unrelenting rhythmic vocal drive or her innate feeling for exotic rhythms. It doesn't help that London is paired with arranger Ernie Freeman, who was usually better at crafting Nashville and soft rock style charts than Latin jazz arrangements. This isn't a bad album - London sounds casual and confident throughout - but it is a rather bland one, and isn't blandness what these types of exotica albums are supposed to be fighting against…