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Mongo Santamaria

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Mongo's Way/Up from the Roots
Released: Jun 8, 1999
Label: N\A
With the exception of a soulful reading of the Box Tops' "The Letter," Mongo's Way abandons the pop covers that dominated Mongo Santamaria's late-'60s dates for Columbia in favor of a more... Continue[+]
Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology 1958-1995
Released: Apr 20, 1999
Label: N\A
Licensing power makes Rhino's two-CD Mongo anthology a good choice for the newcomer, for it gathers together 34 tracks from 23 albums on seven labels, covering most of Mongo's long career. Even if... Continue[+]
Mongo Santamaria
Released: Sep 15, 1998
Label: N\A
Brazilian Sunset
Released: Feb 20, 1996
Label: N\A
Mongo Santamaria leads a fine octet on this set, including musical director Eddie Allen on trumpet and the reeds of Jimmy Cozier and Craig Rivers. Most of the selections are group originals... Continue[+]
Mongo Returns
Released: Jun 28, 1995
Label: N\A
Mongo returns -- to the Fantasy label group, not the scene, from which he had never been missing in action. Yet in another sense, it is a return to the basic Mongo Santamaria Afro-Cuban-rooted... Continue[+]
Mongo Explodes/Watermelon Man
Released: Mar 3, 1995
Label: N\A
Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" was a gigantic hit for Mongo Santamaria in 1962, doing for him in the '60s what Perez Prado's big mambo hits did for him in the '50s. Naturally, then, the... Continue[+]
Mambo Mongo - FANIA
Released: Dec 17, 1993
Label: N\A
The Mambo Mongo collection has 11 tracks of varying vintage played by uncredited groups. It ranges from the excellent late-'60s singalong "Guajiro" to riff-heavy '80s disco for "Happy as a Rat in a... Continue[+]
Mambo Mongo - CHESKY
Released: Mar 30, 1992
Label: N\A
Mango Santamaria utilizes a colorful cast of musicians on this CD. Flutists Hubert Laws and Dave Valentin are featured on two songs apiece (although unfortunately not together) and the nonet has... Continue[+]
Afro Blue: The Picante Collection
Released: Apr 6, 1987
Label: N\A
In assembling its own "Mongo's Greatest Hits" entry, Concord Picante had only a slim catalog of four albums, a narrow time frame, and one of Mongo's less incendiary phases to choose from. But they... Continue[+]
Summertime
Released: Jul 19, 1980
Label: N\A
1991 reissue of a fine concert date. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide
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