Craft Latino is proud to current an all-analog reissue of Para Los Rumberos, a very magnificent recording showcasing Tito Puente’s expertise and musical mastery on its belated fiftieth anniversary. Consisting of ten various 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 via quite a lot of genres from Mambo to Guaracha to Cha-Cha-Cha making this album a delight for listeners and dancers as nicely.
Puente opens with an up to date model of his “Para los Rumberos” observe, slowing the unique blistering quick rumba abierta tempo of the 1955 model to a decent mambo tempo. Its wonderful battle chant: “Vamos rumbero, que la rumba ya va empezar,” broadcasts that it’s time to hit the dance flooring. A talented arranger, Puente builds the strain with a brief phrase within the piano and bass then augments it with the horns repeating it in layers. It lastly explodes with a brief timbale solo.
“Niña y Señora” is predicated on an previous Cuban rumba-guaguancó that’s slowed barely to a mambo/guaracha tempo. Listen to the close-knit vocal concord of Meñique, Santos Colón and Yayo El Indio all through the album, vocalese at its finest. Meanwhile, Puente’s “Guayaba” is basic cha-cha-cha. Chico O’Farill’s association of “Ya No Me Quieres” shows Puente’s artistry on vibes as he expresses himself melodically on this basic bolero. The total vary of genres and rhythms performed all through highlights Puente’s mastery of devices and Afro-Cuban music.
Out on April 7, 2023, the brand new version of Para los Rumberos, was lower all-analog from the unique tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio and pressed on 180-gram audiophile high quality black vinyl in a single-pocket gatefold tip-on jacket. A Green Guava Vinyl variant will probably be out there solely at Fania.com. The album can even be launched in hi-res digital for the primary time, together with 192/24 and 96/24 codecs on April 7, 2023.
Para los Rumberos tracklist (vinyl):
SIDE A:
“Para los Rumberos”
“Niña y Señora”
“Guayaba”
“Ya No Me Quieres”
“Días en el Palladium”
SIDE B
“Salsa y Sabor”
“China”
“Batuka”
“Contenoso”
“El Catire”