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

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

by Mark Corroto
May 1, 1999

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 ...