Mongo Santamaria doing what he did best: taking soul music and putting Afro-Cuban bones underneath it. Bernard Purdie on drums. Hubert Laws on tenor sax. Louis Gasca on trumpet. Steve Berrios on timbales. Mongo on congas and bongos. The tracklist is a full-on soul covers program — “See-Saw,” “Son-of-a-Preacher Man,” “Love Child,” “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “Who’s Making Love” — all run through Mongo’s Afro-Cuban-Latin-funk filter. The result is exactly what it sounds like: groove music that hits from two directions at once.
Genre: Latin Jazz / Jazz-Funk / Afro-Cuban
Year: 1969
Label: Columbia — CS 9780
Country: US
Condition: Media: VG / Sleeve: VG
Notes: Santa Maria pressing. Columbia 360 Sound label. Taped seam. Surface scratches DNAP.
Mongo Santamaria doing what he did best: taking soul music and putting Afro-Cuban bones underneath it. Bernard Purdie on drums. Hubert Laws on tenor sax. Louis Gasca on trumpet. Steve Berrios on timbales. Mongo on congas and bongos. The tracklist is a full-on soul covers program — “See-Saw,” “Son-of-a-Preacher Man,” “Love Child,” “Stoned Soul Picnic,” “Who’s Making Love” — all run through Mongo’s Afro-Cuban-Latin-funk filter. The result is exactly what it sounds like: groove music that hits from two directions at once.
Genre: Latin Jazz / Jazz-Funk / Afro-Cuban
Year: 1969
Label: Columbia — CS 9780
Country: US
Condition: Media: VG / Sleeve: VG
Notes: Santa Maria pressing. Columbia 360 Sound label. Taped seam. Surface scratches DNAP.
