Tito Puente The Big World Of (CD)

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(2006/EL) 22 tracks (63:05) 1949-55 with 12 page booklet more

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Tito Puente: The Big World Of (CD)

(2006/EL) 22 tracks (63:05) 1949-55 with 12 page booklet

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Interpret: Tito Puente
Album titlle: The Big World Of (CD)
Genre Pop
Label EL/CHERRY RED
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5013929309425
weight in Kg 0.1

Puente, Tito - The Big World Of (CD) CD 1
01	Coco My My	Tito Puente
02	Tito Mambo	Tito Puente
03	Vibe Mambo	Tito Puente
04	Mamey Colorao	Tito Puente
05	Esy	Tito Puente
06	Mambo Con Puente	Tito Puente
07	Mambo Diablo	Tito Puente
08	Happy Heart	Tito Puente
09	Willie & Ray Mambo	Tito Puente
10	Caravan	Tito Puente
11	Mambo La Roca	Tito Puente
12	Babaratiri	Tito Puente
13	Mambolero	Tito Puente
14	Cuban Mambo	Tito Puente
15	Cuban Cutie	Tito Puente
16	Abaniquito	Tito Puente
17	Baila Simon	Tito Puente
18	Pare Cochero	Tito Puente
19	Coco Seco	Tito Puente
20	Espinita	Tito Puente
21	Cuidado Con La Mano	Tito Puente
22	Preludio De Amor	Tito Puente

Tito Puente Bandleader and percussionist Tito Puente, who rode to fame on the heels of the... more

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Tito Puente

Bandleader and percussionist Tito Puente, who rode to fame on the heels of the 1950s mambo craze and for the next five decades helped define Latin jazz, died June 1, 2000. He was 77. Puente, who was recently treated for a heart problem, died at NYU Medical Center in New York.

Puente recorded more than 100 albums in his more than 60 years in the business. He won his fifth Grammy in February for best traditional tropical Latin performance for Mambo Birdland, and has been nominated for the award 10 times. Puente brought the timbales, a pair of single-headed drums mounted on stands and played with sticks, from behind the band to the front of the bandstand and played standing up.

"In front of a bandstand you've got to be a showman," Puente said. "Once, I was strictly a musician with a long face and back to the audience. Now I'm a showman, selling what I'm doing, giving the people good vibes." Puente joked that he profited off the talent of Santana, whose early hits include Puente's Oye Como Va. "Every time he plays 'Oye Como Va,' I get a nice royalty check," Puente said. "The excitement of the rhythms and the beat make people happy," he said in a 1997 Associated Press interview. "We try to get our feelings to the people, so they enjoy it. It is not music for a funeral parlor."

The eldest son of Puerto Rican parents, Puente was born Ernest Anthony Puente Jr. in New York City on April 20, 1923. (Some references give other years.) His father, Ernest Sr., was a foreman in a razor-blade factory. His mother called her son Ernestito, Little Ernest, then shortened the name to Tito. It was his mother who first discerned his musical talent and enrolled him in a piano class when he was 7. Puente studied drums for years before switching to timbales. He studied conducting, orchestration and theory at the Juilliard School from 1945 to '47 on the GI Bill.

Talking about his Latin/Jazz fusion, Puente said, "Some jazz bands, like Kenton's, had added Latin rhythms, and it sounded good to me. So I figured I might as well do the same thing. I start off writing a straight jazz arrangement, then I just add a Latin rhythm section."

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