Latin Fans Take Note!

[Dr. Rat]

Seems like THERE IS a Caney CD with that famous session:

Descarga Caliente With Bebo Valdés And His Havana All-stars

Bebo Valdes

Featuring: Bebo Valdés, El Negro Vivar, Pucho Escalante, Generoso Jimenez, Gustavo Mas, Cachaito, Tata Güines, Candido Camero, Guillermo Barreto...

REFERENCE: CCD 512

BAR CODE: 84 27328 20512 2

PRICE: 9.80 ?

Tracklisting:

1. Descarga Caliente

2. Con Poco Poco

3. Mambo Cantabile

4. Miramar

5. Special Bebo

6. Pan Pan Pan

7. Big Shot Cha Cha Cha

8. Mambo Riff

9. Tabu

10. Chiribiricocola La

11. Hotcha Cha

12. Dile A Catalina

13. Zigzag Mambo

14. Smocha Cha

15. Desconfianza

16. Estoy Matizando

17. Bebo´s Blues

Tracks 1,3,4,7,8,9,11,12,14,15 recorded in Havana 1955.

Tracks 2,6,10,16,18, Havana 1952

Tracks 5,13, Havana 1957.

Track 17, Havana 1956.

Now where's track 18?

I got this one, too. Very, very nice.

There's also a cd of Bebo's 50s big band stuff which I didn't like as much.

Con Poco Coco is the wildest-sounding piece on here. There are a few of other true descarga pieces, a few (pretty good) jazz numbers, and some short pieces that sound composed (in both senses of the word).

I don't come back to this one as often as I do to the Cachao stuff, but I play it quite a bit still.

--eric