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Groovystation

Label: Irma Molto Jazz
Released: 2002

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Plays Harold Arlen and West Side Story

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 2. Ill Wind (You're Blowing Me No Good) 3. When the Sun Comes Out 4. Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe 5. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 6. Come Rain or Come Shine 7. Over the Rainbow 8. Out of This World 9. Last Night When We Were Young 10. Man That Got Away 11. Blues in the Night 12. Prologue/The Jet Song 13. Something's Coming 14. Maria Interlude 15. Maria 16. Tonight 17. America 18. Cool 19. One Hand, One Heart 20. I Feel Pretty/Somewhere.

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Afro-Indio / A La Carte

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2002

Album

Greatest Hits

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2000

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Afro American Latin

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2000

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Mucho Mambo Mongo

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2000

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Skin On Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology (1958-1995)

Label: Rhino
Released: 1999
Track listing: Afro Blue; Chano Pozo; Yambu; Mongrama; Barandanga; Guaguanco Mania; Para Ti; Las Guajiras; Tenderly; Bacoso; Introduction By "Symphony Sid"; My Sound (congas drum solo); Canta Bajo; Watermelon Man; Sweet 'Tater Pie; Dirty Willie; Happy Now; Cuidado; Cinderella; Black Stockings; Summertime; Cold Sweat; Fever; Adobo Criollo; Hippo Walk; Saoco; Sofrito; Virtue; Forked Tongue; Little Angel; Mayeya; Manteca; Bahia; Panamanian Aire.

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Mongo'70/Mongo At Montreux

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 1999

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Mongo Santamaria: Skin On Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology (1958-1995)

Read "Skin On Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology (1958-1995)" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Born in Havana, Cuba in 1922, Ramon Santamaria, lovingly known as Mongo was to Afro-Cuban music what Ted Williams was to baseball. Fans loved his playing and fellow musicians studied his bongo and conga technique. He traveled to New York in 1948 to find beboppers like Dizzy Gillespie incorporating Chano Pozo's Cuban folk music and bandleaders ...


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