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I hate iTunes (and Apple generally), not because I don't think their stuff's any good, but because iTunes, with my iPod the only bit of Apple I come into contact with, in order to make themselves seem different from everyone else and, thus, be easily identifiable, adopt an anti-human policy. For example - you ask ANYONE in the world, speaking any language you like, if they really want to do something they've said they want to do, they'll respond 'YES' in whatever language. Apple doesn't believe in yes. If you wanna delete something, you have to press D. It's not a big thing, but what it means is absolutely HUGE. And that's not the only thing. So much of the programme is deliberately counter-intuitive it's almost alien. And I REFUSE TO EVER GET USED TO IT. MG

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A beautiful album - but everyone needs the CD for the bonus track. MG

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Thank you, Bill. You know, I do keep going on about real songs and it's because I like 'em. And, by the way, it's not a HIM who's gonna have his hairpiece pulled off, it's the HER who's not leaving her man alone. MG

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Will focus on that later. MG

Oh, I see I started this thread! Well, I've got a bit more since then - a few very nice Noro Morales, some more Puente and Rodriguez (Tito R used to be with Xavier Cugat) and, nicest of all, some Abelardo Barrosso and Arsenio Rodriguez. MG

The song comes from the album 'Guarapachanga' which is from 1964, according to Discogs. Unfortunately Discogs doesn't have a photo of the reverse of the sleeve, but here's the front if anyone wants to try to find a copy in a junk store. Discogs does, however, link to a YouTube video of one of the other tracks on the album, which seems to be a studio job, not live, and the tres is NOT played on a fender. So, I guess, if you're playing with a band full of trumpet players and you want your tres to be heard, you'll organise yourself a fender and string it the tres way, plug in and play. No big deal, but not traditional. By the way, the band is still going. It started in 1950, when Arsenio left Cuba and moved to the USA and some of his musicians carried on together. MG

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OK, Jim, you're right. "Too comfortable, too formulaic, too generic, too assembly line," is probably what I should have said. (I reckon I got 'too professional' from my Missus, 'cos that's what she said when we went to see Lowell Fulson, at the Four Bars here in Cardiff in the early eighties. But what she meant was what you said.) MG And PS - glad you do listen to those bands I mentioned. Thought I was the only one here.

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I don't know how to explain 'professional' in my terms to you, because you ARE Only find yourself some Felix del Rosario, Joseito Mateo, Los Virtuosos, or even the 'old' king of Merengue, Angel Viloria, material and enjoy. MG

Yeah, Marty Paich was a surprise to me when I saw his name on the cover. Benton's a guy I've heard very little; just his album with Gerald Wislon and Grove Holmes and his Jazzland LP. So I'm far from near identifying him. Don't think the alto player is Ortega, though. The other connection Gerald was making at that time was with Ray Charles. He arranged 'You are my sunshine' and some other R&B tracks of the period. But I suspect most of the Charles band wuld be reasonably recognisable. MG

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Thanks for that, Jim. Most illuminating. Can't deny the Cruz/Colon is excellent but, like so much other New York material I've heard, it sounds too professional; highly schooled, well thought out and controlled, by comparison with the bands I've been listening to lately from elsewhere in the Caribbean, mainly the Dominican Republic, which sound rough and furiously wild. I'm wondering if, being from Puerto Rico, which is part of America, those guys were treated to too much jazz when they were young. Just a thought. MG

Yeah, I'd like to know who's on that album, too. Isn't Gene himself alive? Mention of Gerald Wilson brings to mind that, back in the early sixties (though a bit earlier than this LP), one of the tenor players who was making dates with him was Walter Benton. Does THAT name click with you, Jim? MG

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