Rare Machito w/Charlie Parker Afro Cuban Jazz Suite

$

110

"Afro Cuban Jazz"

Machito with Charlie Parker and Flip Phillips

Mercury mg c-505

10 inch LP

1951

A hugely important and great record from Mchito , 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.

Very low reserve.

 

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LP-   heavy vinyl, great gloss, VG+, light marks (probably from a sleeve), plays beautifully with very low surface noise. Great copy.

Cover- Strong Vg+. no seam splits or major issues. A small amount of corner bumping. A nice copy and a looker.

I have tried to be as specific as i can on the condition of this record. It was cleaned on a vpi record cleaning machine and is stored in a smoke-free room in a poly outer and heavy kraft paper inner sleeve outside the jacket to avoid wear. Records are shipped out in boxes designed for lp's.

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7 dollars priority mail

canada- 10 dollars

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