Hot Timbales

Tito Puente · 1958 · Solo de timbales de Tito Puente, clôt l'album

Context

Top Percussion, recorded in New York on 29 July 1957 and released by RCA Victor in 1958, gathers around Tito Puente five percussionists including Mongo Santamaría. The record is classified as Afro-Cuban jazz. Final piece of the album, centred on the leader's timbales.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban. Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Complicación (1958)
• Mambo Gozón (1958)
• Elequana (1958)
• Obatala Yeza (1958)
• Conga Alegre (1958)
• Pa' Los Rumberos (1956)

Sources

• jazzmusicarchives.com

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