Machito & Tito Puente - Caravan

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Uploaded by on Jun 14, 2011

Extract from the album Tito Meets Machito: The Mambo Kings

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Machito played a huge role in the history of Latin jazz, for his bands of the 1940s were probably the first to achieve a fusion of powerful Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz improvisation. At its roaring best, the band had a hard-charging sound, loaded with jostling, hyperactive bongos and congas and razor-edged riffing brass. Machito was the front man, singing, conducting, shaking maracas, while his brother-in-law Mario Bauza was the innovator behind the scenes, getting Machito to hire jazz-oriented arrangers....

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  • Great very Exotic Song , Thank Tito Puente and Machito

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  • Great song by Ellington and Tizol! Great version by Machito and Tito Puente!

    "Night, and stars above that shine so bright,

    The mistery of their shading lights

    That shine upon our caravan".

    CARAVAN (1927) by Duke Ellington - Juan Tizol - Irving Mills (lyrics)

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