Jose Curbelo Quintet – Cha Cha Cha in Blue Fiesta LP 1st Pressing Very Rare 1955
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Jose Curbelo Quintet – Cha Cha Cha in Blue Fiesta LP 1st Pressing Very Rare 1956 Archival Sleeve this has a Latin Jazz feel through out excellent piano and vibes
Original 1955 US 1st Microgroove release with a laminate overlay cover and with a vinyl weight of approx. 185 grams
José Curbelo (February 18, 1917, Havana - September 21, 2012, Miami) was a Cuban-born American pianist and manager. Curbelo was a key figure in Latin jazz in New York City in the 1940s and helped to popularize Mambo and the cha cha dance in the 1950s. Starting in 1953, Curbelo worked with a sextet which included Al Cohn and Jack Hitchcock; this group was arranged by Cohn himself and Puente as well as Rene Hernandez and Chico O'Farrill. Curbelo's band recorded several albums in the cha-cha style for Morand's Fiesta Records in the 1950s. Curbelo wrote unforgettable songs in this period ("La La la", "La familia", "La Runidera" (1946), "Sun Sun babae" (1952), "Mambo y cha cha cha"); these songs have since been sung by Ray Barreto and Oscar de Leon
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