A GREAT CD, picture a hot steamy, crowded dance floor where the music and the crowd are the magic for the night. The best compilation of Afro Latin big band groove. Percussion dance trance, searing horns, and mellow vocal calls. All tracks are gems.
***1:slow, sultry, low, big band groove vocals and great instrumentation, nice intro for the CD.
**2: SLOW AND LOW watusi boogaloo
*** 3: GREAT GROOVE, the rhythm takes over.
4: vocals both slow and low and rapid yelling, gets into a great groove.
5: Trumpet and sax Latin Jazz.
6: Fantastic groove with Cal Tjader vibes and Eddie Palmari piano.
7: vocal in English w/ Afro Cuban Soul, R&B cha cha cha.
****8: Latin Jazz, great tenor sax, fantastic groove.
*9: slower, totally cool, trombone and sax.
*10: the title is Heat and it pours it on in a mid tempo funky Latin groove.
11: slow cool groove, Cal Tjader on vibes Vince Guaraldi piano, Mongo Santamaria on congas.
12: cool marimba, sizzling horns.
13: slow start work up to a mid tempo cha cha cha, vocals.
***14: Charlie Palmari on one hot piano, with a dazzling horn section. Everyone is cooking on this, great percussion.
15: nice bass plays with sizzling percussion.
16: wailing sax and great timbales yield a great track.
17:vocals and brass with great percussion.
*18: slow, mellow groove with vocals, nice trumpet. D Farrell 04/98