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Perez Prado & Shorty Rogers - Voodoo Suite Plus Six All-Time Greats (1955/1972) [Afro-Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz]; FLAC

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Perez Prado & Shorty Rogers - Voodoo Suite Plus Six All-Time Greats (1955/1972) [Afro-Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz]; FLAC

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Artist: Perez Prado & Shorty Rogers
Album: Voodoo Suite Plus Six All-Time Greats
Genre: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz
Label: RCA Victor
Released: 1955/1972
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
  1. The Voodoo Suite (Perez Prado)
  2. St. James Infirmary (Joe Primrose)
  3. In the Mood (Andy Razaf-Joseph C. Garland)
  4. I Can't Get Started (Ira Gershwin-Vernon Duke)
  5. Jumping at the Woodside (Count Basie)
  6. Stomping at the Savoy (Benny Goodman-Chick Webb-Edgar Sampson)
  7. Music Makers (Don Raye-Harry James)

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The sides of this album are unrelated. "Voodoo Suite" is Prado's classic orchestral composition combining Afro-Cuban and jazz in a "tone poem." It was recorded April 8, 1954, with a 22-piece band consisting of the Prado orchestra, Shorty Rogers, and other West Coast jazz musicians, mostly percussionists. The "African" chanting is hokey, but an exotic "jungle" mood is established by bass and drums. (Henry Mancini's "Hatari" sounds very likely to have borrowed from it.) While the suite provides room for plenty of solos and tempo changes, ultimately it is more an extended, sensational mambo than a classic of Afro-Cuban jazz. Evidently Prado was very excited about the project and rushed forward with it; greater planning and rehearsal would have helped. In the shadow of "Voodoo Suite," the filler "Six All-Time Greats" understandably gets overlooked. These are in the style of Mambo Mania, and indeed, "St. James Infirmary" appears on each album. The version here and three others are recorded in "mambo/La Culeta" style with strings, but the strings are barely noticeable.
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