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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.
Mongo Santamaria: Skin On Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology (1958-1995)
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 ...
Mongo Santamaria: Afro Blue: The Picante Collection
by Robert Spencer
Mon Dieu! Mondo Mongo is a great place! Mongo Santamaria is the man who gave the world “Afro Blue," a song that caught the ears of John Coltrane and many others for its soaring and dignified spirituality -- a songmadefor Trane. That the composer himself, meanwhile, is no one-hit wonder is abundantly proven by this Concord ...
