Mongo Santamaria - Watermelon Man - 180g
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Mongo Santamaria - Watermelon Man - 180g

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Artist: Mongo Santamaria | Label: Cornbread | Format: LP | Genre: World / Salsa  | Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed Mongo SantamariaWatermelon Man Cornbread 16054 - re-issue LP on 180g vinyl  Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man was a gigantic hit for Mongo Santamaria in 1962, doing for him in the '60s what Pérez Prado's big mambo hits did for him in the '50s. Naturally, then, the follow-up LP to the single is devoted to 12 airplay-length tracks loaded with bright, swinging Latin cha-chas and mambo rhythms mixed with blues, soul, and jazz, presumably suitable for twisting the night away. Rodgers Grant's piano supplies a good deal of the harmonic foundation of jazz, with the help of an occasional jazz solo from saxes Pat Patrick and Bobby Capers, while Marty Sheller's commanding party-time trumpet rides above Santamaria's thundering congas. In this setting, even the venerable "The Peanut Vendor" is brought right up to date. Personnel is: Mongo Santamaria - conga,

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