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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Santana - Para Los Rumberos (1971)
Closing cut from Santana's third album (Santana, aka III, which hit #1 on the charts when it dropped in September of '71), this track came to me from a very nice 3-album Columbia Records sampler called The Music People that I picked up at the thrift sto' over the past couple months. TPM was responsible for at least one previous JOTD, also circa 1971, Calico Baby by Dreams. But today was the day I finally listened to sides 5 & 6. Which is strange, because of the 40 Columbia artists featured on the sampler, Santana got top billing, before Dylan, Blood Sweat & Tears, or Ten Years After. So you'd think their cut would have appeared on an earlier side. Whatever. This track was originally written by Tito Puente, and his version was featured on the soundtrack to Carlito's Way.
Musicians included 17-year old Neal Schon on guitar, who would later help form Journey. And the legendary Luis Gasca on trumpet, who was in Janis Joplin's band during the Woodstock era, and appeared on notable albums by the Jefferson Airplane, Van Morrison, Joe Henderson, George Benson, and Tito Puente, in addition to a few of his own. Wow, now I gotta find his 1st LP, The Little Giant, it had a super lineup of Hubert Laws on flute, Joe Henderson on tenor sax, and Herbie Hancock on piano. Gasca probably did his funkiest work on a series of 60s Afro-Cuban jazz-funk-soul records by conga master Mongo Santamaria, who also played on The Little Giant.
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