Personnel:
Walfredo de los Reyes (timbales) with Carlos Arado (tp), Pedro Guida (s,fl), Emiliano Gil (s), Enrique Palau (s), Yoyo Casteleiro (p), Luis Rodriguez (b), Martha Rams, Kiko Rodriguez (vcls) // Luis Escalante (tp), Jesus Caunedo (as), Julio Guerrero (fl),
Reference: CCD 524
For the first time on 1 CD, the two legendary cuban jam session albums that Walfredo de los Reyes Jr. recorded in Cuba before Castro. 24 tracks.
When we think of Cuban descargas we think first of Bebo Valdés, a pioneer of the genre in 1952, then Cachao and his legendary recordings on different labels, then maybe Julio Gutiérrez and PeruchÍn for the volume of the Cuban jam sessions on the Panart label, yet few will think of Walfredo de los Reyes Jr. (known now as Walfredo de los Reyes Sr.), who at the end of the 1950s, recorded two full lengths LPs of popular Cuban music mixed with jazz. The two records are Sabor Cubano recorded with the group he directed at the Casino Parisien of the Havanas Hotel Nacional with Yoyo Casteleiro, Enrique Palau, Carlos Arado or Pedro Guida, and Cuban Jazz in which he brought a Cuban All Star group made up of Paquito Echevarria, Luis Escalante, Cachao and Los Papines among others. Highly recommended.
Tracklisting:
1. Descarga (Chico O'Farrill) descarga-mambo
2. Poco Pelo (A.Sánchez) chachachá
3. Mambo Inn (Tito Puente) descarga-mambo
4. Que Seas Feliz (C.Velázquez) chachachá
5. Sabrosona (R.Egües) chachachá
6. Conmigo vas a acabar (S.E.Sebia) guaracha
7. Cuban Jam Session (R.Hernández) descarga
8. La Negra Tomasa (Rodríguez Fiffe) guaguancó
9. Tengo un Cariñito (P.Rigual) bolero-mambo
10. Mambo (Chico O'Farrill) descarga-mambo
11. Coco Seco (E.Duarte) guaracha
12. Bayamo (P.Salazar) chachachá
13. Es Diferente (Cachao) descarga
14. Pennies from Heaven (Burke-Johnson) descarga
15. La Paloma (S.Yradier) chachachá
16. Moritat (Weill-Brecht) descarga
17. Its All Right with Me (C.Porter) descarga
18. Walfredo y Papín (DR) rumba
19. Leche con Ron (P.Echevarria) descarga
20. Almost Like Being in Love (F.Loewe) descarga
21. Las Boinas de Cachao (Cachao) descarga
22. Chachachá de los Pollos (Tito Puente) chachachá
23. Retorno al Amanecer (C.Portillo de la Luz) bolero
24. Mucho Humo (Cachao) descarga
Tracks #1-12: Walfredo de los Reyes Jr. (timbales) with Carlos Arado (tp), Pedro Guida (s,fl), Emiliano Gil (s), Enrique Palau (s), Yoyo Casteleiro (p), Luis Rodriguez (b), Martha Rams, Kiko Rodriguez (vcls)
Tracks #13-24: Walfredo de los Reyes Jr. (timbales) with Luis Escalante (tp), Jesus Caunedo (as), Julio Guerrero (fl), Paquito Echeverria (p), Cachao (b), Los Papines (perc).
Recorded in Cuba 1958-1959
