1st PRESS 10" Machito Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite Mercury MG C-505 BLACK/GOLD LABEL DG

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Machito Afro - Cuban Jazz Suite

Supervised By Norman Granz

Mercury MG C-505

10" LP 1951

ORIGINAL 1st PRESS

1st MERCURY BLACK/GOLD LABEL

DEEP GROOVE

DAVID STONE MARTIN COLLECTION - FINE ART

Label Type : black/gold Mercury type A

Matrix Number :

SIDE-A  MG  C508A  C505A

SIDE-B  MG C508B C505B

Judging from matrix imprints/inscriptions, this album was once assigned to MG C-508, then renumbered to this MG C-505

The famous banquet of supreme blend of Cuban music and Modern Jazz.

The famous producer/supervisor Norman Granz was said to get prompted by Stan Kenton's “Cuban Episode” recorded in early 1950. Then Mr. Granz started to record Afro-Cuban flavoured jazz albums using Cuban musicians.

This album is Mr. Granz's first attempt to an unique blend of Modern Jazz and Cuban rhythms, with the help of Machito (bandleader) and Chico O'Farrill (arranger).

Collective personnel includes gorgeous members such as Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, Buddy Rich, Harry Edison et al.

Their fruitful improvisations backed up with steady but swingy latin rhythms sounds so attractive.

Definitely one of the masterpiece in the jazz history.

A hugely important and great record from Machito , composed by Chico O'Farrill. Killer cover and a great sounding pressing, far better than the verve reissues.

Musicians: Mario Bauza (trumpet), Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet), Charlie Parker (alto sax), Flip Phillips (tenor sax), Buddy Rich (drums), Machito (maracas), Rene Hernandez (piano), Jose Mangual (percussion)

Recorded: December 21, 1950 More info: ...O'Farrill regardless established a solid reputation among his peers while working with Goodman. As a result new opportunities surfaced, including an offer from avant-garde jazz producer, Norman Granz. Granz was more willing than Goodman to gamble on O'Farrill's innovative fusion rhythms, in particular his new and untested Latin styles and Cuban beats, which were not unlike those pioneered a decade earlier by Frank "Machito" Grillo. O'Farrill signed with Granz and gained stride as a composer in the 1950s; most notably he wrote his first extended jazz suite, utilizing a combination of African and Latin rhythms. The piece, aptly titled "Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite," became a classic of Latin-jazz fusion. He wrote the work for Machito's orchestra, which recorded the jazz suite ultimately with the popular alto saxophonist Charlie Parker on solos. Parker's deftly intuitive interpretation of the music served as a boon to O'Farrill's career. It led to greater exposure for the creative Cuban arranger and enhanced his reputation. During that early phase of his American career, O'Farrill wrote such classics as Stan Kenton's "Cuban Episode" and Gillespie's "Manteca Suite." Also during those years he toured both the United States and Cuba with his Chico O'Farrill Orchestra, and between 1951 and 1954 the group recorded six albums of big band jazz selections. Yet even as a mambo craze swept through the North American popular music culture in the 1950s, O'Farrill, on the intensity of the popularity of "Afro-Cuban Suite" became increasingly absorbed with Afro-Cuban fusion rhythms.

SIDE-A:

Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite A-1 C 557-4 Cancion - A-2 C 558-6 C 559-4 Mambo -

SIDE-B:

Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite (cont'd) B-1 C 560-2 6/8 - B-2 C 561-3 Jazz - B-3 C 562-4 Rhumba Abierta

Condition:

Cover: ECC

Record: N/MINT -

Labels :NMINT+

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