Machito And His Salsa Big Band 1982

Machito and his Salsa Big Band is the Afro-Cuban salsa jazz orchestra led by Machito aka Frank Raul Grillo, who emigrated to New York City in the late 1930's. Machito is credited to be one of the innovators fusing Jazz/Be-bop with Afro-Cuban rhythms into salsa.

His 14 man and one-woman strong orchestra performs seven infectious salsa tracks, all written by Machito and recorded in 1982 at the Fendal Sound Studio's (Holland), in a short four hours mostly one take per tune. It was released in 1982 on the Dutch TImeless Records label, and won the 1983 Grammy Award in the category Best Latin Recording.

Machito and his Salsa Big Band 1982 is available as a limited edition of 500 individually numbered copies on blue vinyl and contains liner notes written by Dutch saxophone artist Hans Dulfer on the back sleeve.

Tracklist

A1.   Elas De La Rumba
A2.   Quimbombo
A3.   Piniero Tenia Razon
A4.   Caso Perdido

B1.   Manicero
B2.   Sambia
B3.   Yerbero

Credits

Alto Saxophone – Ed Covi, Mark Friedman
Baritone Saxophone – Pete Miranda
Bass – Nelson Gonzalez
Bongos – Ray Romero
Congas – T.C. Ramos
Leader, Vocals, Percussion – Machito (Raul Grillo)
Piano – William Rodriguez
Tenor Saxophone – Ken Hitchcock
Timbales, Music Director – Mario Grillo
Trumpet – Alfredo Chocolate Armenteros, Jeff Davis, Shunzu Ono, Tony Cofresi
Vocals – Paula Grillo