JSngry

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There's better Diz available. But there's worse. I can get enough of Bix. Nothing wrong with him, but I "get it" and that's that. But I can never get enough Prez. Ever. Some of the stuff on this Mosaic I've been jammin' for 35 or so years, and it still rocks my world like none other. So I would say to get the Gerald Wilson.

Not the only one I know...

And btw, if you're doing the Fania reissue thing, this is not a bad one at all:

As far as Tito v Tito goes, I've always felt that Tito P brought the New York to salsa whereas Tito R brought the salsa to New York. Of course, if you talk to the right Cuban cats, they'll tell you that they was both dirty stinkin' thieves...

It's a sports radio thang. I can't say that I've knowingly heard one of their shows, but I sure have heard of them.

What, is Vermont full?

The Puerto Rican TV gig was late 50s/very early 70s, and is, I presume, the source for the two color clips I've posted/ Rodriguez looks younger in the B&W clip, I think. I'm thinking maybe local NY TV or something? The staging is more elaborate than the TR PR shows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MMfKfJzfNA I wonder if this was from American TV?

This is, I'm told, essentially what happened to the Frank Tiberi collection as well. Bummer.

Yeah, but no matter where I go...

Lousy video, great, great band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopH892bzsw

And don't forget to send kisses from Babette.

whoa...

This is music that goes whooooooOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh like a bigass jet flying through the sky. The way that Tony plays on this album - dictated by the material - would swallow up an acoustic piano.

A conversation between some of my good friends might sound "different" than a conversation between some of my other good friends, but they're both still conversations between good friends.

Dude, that's just waaaay freakin' nuts! I'm jealous!

I recommend that everybody postpone that nex glass of water for a few minutes and spend the whopping sum of 89 cents to download "Bilongo" from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Bilongo/dp/B000W2NZ9Y Great chart, great band, great singing, great....just great, period. Kikiribu mandinga y'all!

many/most of the vintage charts were by Rene Hernandez, right? When you talk about great arrangers, there's a name that should be mentioned, but never is.

Yeah, but you have to play it backwards to hear it.

Ok, I don't know well enough to say one way or the another, but I don't think that it's actually TR's song, he just recorded it (and damn well). But found on YouTube, here's a totally beautiful video of the song performed by Compay Segundo, lifted from Cuban television. You gotta sit through some introductory B.S. but then...hey.

Dude, Tito Rodriguez was a BAD MOTHERLCKUFER! Most folks know him for his boleros (not for nothing was he called "the Latin Sinatra"), but he was a total musician, and a total entertainer. There's a cut of his from the '50s(?) called "Bilongo" that will rock damn near anybody's world. Trust me.

"Que Sera". Defnitely not the Doris Day song, one less "Sera".

Sorta like Pancho Hagood w/Monk... (woefully incomplete)