Centennial Salute to Tito & Tito

Beschrijving

2025 New York big band (4 trompetten, 3 trombones, 5 sax) salsa ode aan Tito Puente + Tito Rodriguez in stijl van Mambo Legends Orchestra ol.v. Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra, erg fijn!
1. Dizzys Band Intro (0:21)
2. Machito Forever (8:03)
3. El Que Se Fué (5:14)
4. Mambo Inn (6:38)
5. Oye Mi Guaguancó (9:28)
6. Yambú (7:20)
7. Agua Limpia Todo (6:13)
8. Avísale a Mi Contrario (4:41)
9. Joy Spring (6:16)
10. Buscando La Melodía (5:00)
11. Mamaguela (5:01)
12. Tus Ojos (3:50)
13. Babarabatiri (7:55)

The Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra has been one of the most precious hidden treasures of the Bronx, New York City’s majority Hispanic borough. The trumpeter-educator Steven Oquendo founded SOLJO while working as a music instructor at Harlem School of the Arts. The orchestra performed alongside Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades, and Eddie Palmieri, initially as a rehearsal band.
This recording finds the band tearing it up, celebrating the centennial of Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, located just a few blocks uptown from the old Palladium Ballroom, where the two Titos made history at the home of the mambo.
The orchestra closes the set with the same blue-hot fire with which it opened, burning things up on Puente’s arrangement of Antar Daly driving onomatopoeic ”Babarabatiri,” on which Pete Miranda, the veteran Baritone saxophonist, and Michael Pallas, trombonist, are the featured soloists.