Mongo Santamaria - Mongo at the Village Gate (1990)
Mongo Santamaria - Mongo at the Village Gate (1990)
Jazz (Latin/Afro-Cuban) | EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG | mp3@320 | 312 MB. & 131 MB.
300dpi. Complete Scans (JPG) included | WinRar, 3% recovery
Audio CD (1990) | Label: Riverside/OJC | Catalog# 0002521-8649025 | 48:19 min.
Jazz (Latin/Afro-Cuban) | EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG | mp3@320 | 312 MB. & 131 MB.
300dpi. Complete Scans (JPG) included | WinRar, 3% recovery
Audio CD (1990) | Label: Riverside/OJC | Catalog# 0002521-8649025 | 48:19 min.
Review by Scott Yanow ~allmusicTracklist:
This reissue CD finds Mongo Santamaria entering the boogaloo era with a variety of funky pieces that show the influence of R&B and soul-jazz without losing the group's roots in Cuban music. The infectious live set teams the conguero with trumpeter Marty Sheller, the reeds of Pat Patrick and Bobby Capers, pianist Rodgers Grant, bassist Victor Venegas, drummer Frank Hernandez, and the percussion of Chihuahua Martinez and Julian Cabrera. Such tunes as "Fatback," "Mongo's Groove," and "Creole" have happy, soulful, and simple melodies. This is one of Marty Sheller's best dates on trumpet, while Santamaira takes "My Sound" as a colorful unaccompanied solo. A remake of "Para Ti" is a welcome bonus track on this enjoyable CD.
01. Introduction by "Symphony Sid" (0:43)
02. El Toro (6:35)
03. Fatback (6:00)
04. Mongo's Groove (3:20)
05. Creole (2:31)
06. The Jungle Bit (6:49)
07. My Sound (3:01)
08. The Morning After (6:47)
09. Nothing for Nothing (7:21)
10. Para Ti (5:14)
Mongo Santamaria - Mongo at the Village Gate (1990)
Personnel:
Mongo Satamaria - conga drums
Marty Sheller - trumpet
Pat Patrick, Bobby Capers - flutes, saxophones
Rodgers Grant - piano
Victor Venegas - bass
Frank Hernandez - drums
"Chihuahua" Martinez, Julian Cabrera - latin percussion
~allAboutJazz
Born: April 7, 1922 | Died: February 1, 2003 | Instrument: Percussion
Mongo Santamaria enjoyed a long and successful career in Latin music. His recordings and concert performances ranged from the authentic percussion music of Afro-Cuban religious rituals through to Latin-jazz reworkings of American jazz and pop hits.
His song Afro-Blue became a contemporary jazz standard, best-known in the coruscating version by saxophonist John Coltrane. His own adaptation of Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man provided the biggest hit of his career in 1963, and is regarded as a classic artefact on the Lounge Music scene.
He was born Ramon Santamaria in Cuba, and nicknamed Mongo by his father (the word denotes a tribal chief in Senegal). He began learning violin, but quickly switched to drums and then congas, and left school early to work as a musician on the highly active local scene in Havana.
He graduated to the famous Tropicana Club with bands like Conjunto Matamoros and Conjunto Azul, then moved to New York in 1950. He was able to pursue his interest in American jazz at its epicentre, while gaining valuable exposure playing with two of the most important Latin band leaders in the city, Perez Prado and later Tito Puente.
Their explosive percussion battles became a major attraction in Puente’s band, but in 1958 he left the band to work with the jazz vibraphonist Cal Tjader, who was beginning to explore the Latin jazz direction which made his reputation. He spent some years in California in this period, but returned to New York in 1962.
He was already making records under his own name while working with Tjader, and soon formed his own band in New York. He came across Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man when the pianist sat in with the band at a Cuban music club in the Bronx in 1962, and immediately saw the possibilities.
His own version was a top ten entry on the American pop charts in 1963, and launched the percussionist on a new and more commercial direction, although the standard of his musicians generally remained high, including jazz artists like Chick Corea, Ray Vega, Sonny Fortune and Hubert Laws.
He pursued the strategy of adding a Latin groove to jazz and pop tunes throughout the next two decades, and became an acknowledged leader in the highly popular Latin-soul fusion movement of the era. He became one of the best known names in Latin music, and reached a wide audience with his accessible, dance-oriented approach to the music.
Although he never scored another hit of the magnitude of Watermelon Man, his other successes of the period included an energised version of La Bamba in 1964 and another big American success with his version of The Temptations’s Cloud Nine in 1969. He received several Grammy nominations in the Seventies and Eighties, and won the award in 1977 for his album Amancer.
In the early Eighties he returned to a more jazz influenced direction. He continued to perform into the early Nineties, and made further recordings even after he retired from concert appearances.
Latin Jazz conguero and bandleader Ramón “Mongo” Santamaria, unfortunately passed away in Miami, Florida, on February 1st, 2003 at the age of 85.
Mongo's body of work and his contribution to the evolution of percussion not just in Latin genres but in music in general is one that will continue to inspire musicians for years to come.
Born: April 7, 1922 | Died: February 1, 2003 | Instrument: Percussion
Mongo Santamaria enjoyed a long and successful career in Latin music. His recordings and concert performances ranged from the authentic percussion music of Afro-Cuban religious rituals through to Latin-jazz reworkings of American jazz and pop hits.
His song Afro-Blue became a contemporary jazz standard, best-known in the coruscating version by saxophonist John Coltrane. His own adaptation of Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man provided the biggest hit of his career in 1963, and is regarded as a classic artefact on the Lounge Music scene.
He was born Ramon Santamaria in Cuba, and nicknamed Mongo by his father (the word denotes a tribal chief in Senegal). He began learning violin, but quickly switched to drums and then congas, and left school early to work as a musician on the highly active local scene in Havana.
He graduated to the famous Tropicana Club with bands like Conjunto Matamoros and Conjunto Azul, then moved to New York in 1950. He was able to pursue his interest in American jazz at its epicentre, while gaining valuable exposure playing with two of the most important Latin band leaders in the city, Perez Prado and later Tito Puente.
Their explosive percussion battles became a major attraction in Puente’s band, but in 1958 he left the band to work with the jazz vibraphonist Cal Tjader, who was beginning to explore the Latin jazz direction which made his reputation. He spent some years in California in this period, but returned to New York in 1962.
He was already making records under his own name while working with Tjader, and soon formed his own band in New York. He came across Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man when the pianist sat in with the band at a Cuban music club in the Bronx in 1962, and immediately saw the possibilities.
His own version was a top ten entry on the American pop charts in 1963, and launched the percussionist on a new and more commercial direction, although the standard of his musicians generally remained high, including jazz artists like Chick Corea, Ray Vega, Sonny Fortune and Hubert Laws.
He pursued the strategy of adding a Latin groove to jazz and pop tunes throughout the next two decades, and became an acknowledged leader in the highly popular Latin-soul fusion movement of the era. He became one of the best known names in Latin music, and reached a wide audience with his accessible, dance-oriented approach to the music.
Although he never scored another hit of the magnitude of Watermelon Man, his other successes of the period included an energised version of La Bamba in 1964 and another big American success with his version of The Temptations’s Cloud Nine in 1969. He received several Grammy nominations in the Seventies and Eighties, and won the award in 1977 for his album Amancer.
In the early Eighties he returned to a more jazz influenced direction. He continued to perform into the early Nineties, and made further recordings even after he retired from concert appearances.
Latin Jazz conguero and bandleader Ramón “Mongo” Santamaria, unfortunately passed away in Miami, Florida, on February 1st, 2003 at the age of 85.
Mongo's body of work and his contribution to the evolution of percussion not just in Latin genres but in music in general is one that will continue to inspire musicians for years to come.
Mongo Santamaria - Mongo at the Village Gate (1990)
Mongo Santamaria (1922 - 2003)
Produced by Orrin Keepnews
Recorded live at The Village Gate, NYC; September 2, 1963
Digital remastering, 1990 - Phil De Lancie (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley)
Photography: Gai Terrell
Liner notes by Orrin Keepnews
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