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Continuing what is perhaps the most admirable reissue campaign in Latin music history, The Complete 78s, Vol. 3 presents yet another 40 tracks of Tito Puente's earliest recordings as a leader. Originally, Emusica head Giora Breil had commissioned Joe Conzo to compile and annotate a four-volume collection from the dawn of Tito Puente's leadership of a band, a series of 156 songs recorded from 1949 to 1955 and released on the Tico label as 78 rpm records. Although Puente was recording for RCA around the same time (those sides appear on The Complete RCA Recordings, Vol. 1), these Tico songs present a far different side of the Latin maestro, and there are few parallels between the material. Where Puente was recording plentiful swing crossovers for RCA ("Tuxedo Junction" and "Take the 'A' Train" in addition to his early masterpiece "Ran Kan Kan"), his material for Tico found him keeping mostly to what his core audience in Spanish Harlem wanted to hear: plentiful hard mambos with the occasional bolero or ballad and, overall, few direct concessions to mainstream music. This was the equivalent of Duke Ellington on OKeh or Charlie Parker on Dial -- recordings for the hardcore faithful that showed a band as it existed instead of as it wanted to be sold. However, despite assumptions either way, that doesn't necessarily make this a better or worse set than the fruits of the RCA years, and indeed, for a crossover audience whose numbers usually overwhelm the core base, Puente's Tico recordings will be less familiar and even less dynamic. But the level of musicianship was high, with future heroes Charlie Palmieri, Mongo Santamaria, and Willie Bobo heard on volume three. In at least one area, however, Puente's band wasn't at its peak, and that was in the vocals. While Vicentico Valdez was heard often on volumes one and two, Gilberto Monroig takes over for most of the vocal features on volume three; he was a fine singer also, but again no equal of the great mambo vocalists. Still, The Complete 78s, Vol. 3 is a treasure trove for Latin fans.
© John Bush /TiVo
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Justi Barreto, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Antar Daly, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 1955 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist - Enrique Jorrin, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist - Enrique Jorrin, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, Vibraphone, Timbales , MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ralph Seijo, Producer
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Bernie Wayne, Composer
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Duke Ellington, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, Percussion, Timbales , MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Juan Tizol, ComposerLyricist - Machito, Maracas, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Loco, MainArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Bobby Woodlen, ComposerLyricist - Grace Sampson, ComposerLyricist - Mario Bauza, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, Vibraphone, Timbales , MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ralph Seijo, Producer - Jay Martins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1963 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Vincent Youmans, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gus Kahn, ComposerLyricist - Eliscu Edwards, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Charlie Palmieri, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Ernesto Duarte Brito, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Javier Vazquez, Arranger, Work Arranger - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist - Antonio Cevedo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Justi Barreto, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist - Lara Paquitan, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Bebo Valdes, ComposerLyricist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist - Antonio Cevedo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Jorge Mazón Delgado, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Justi Barreto, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Justi Barreto, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Justi Barreto, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Justi Barreto, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Unknown, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist - Facundo Rivera, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Justi Barreto, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Justi Barreto, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Unknown, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist - Gilberto Monroig, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Grace Sampson, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, Vibraphone, Timbales , MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Edgar Sampson, ComposerLyricist - Ralph Seijo, Producer
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Alessandro Cicognini, ComposerLyricist - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, Percussion, Timbales , MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Weston, ComposerLyricist - Machito, Maracas, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Loco, MainArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Rene Touzet, ComposerLyricist - Tito Puente, MainArtist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Masucci, Producer, Recording Producer - Eve Charlack, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1975 Craft Recordings.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Otilio Portal, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist - Andrés Echeverría, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, Vibraphone, Timbales , MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ralph Seijo, Producer
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Tito Puente, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Album review
Continuing what is perhaps the most admirable reissue campaign in Latin music history, The Complete 78s, Vol. 3 presents yet another 40 tracks of Tito Puente's earliest recordings as a leader. Originally, Emusica head Giora Breil had commissioned Joe Conzo to compile and annotate a four-volume collection from the dawn of Tito Puente's leadership of a band, a series of 156 songs recorded from 1949 to 1955 and released on the Tico label as 78 rpm records. Although Puente was recording for RCA around the same time (those sides appear on The Complete RCA Recordings, Vol. 1), these Tico songs present a far different side of the Latin maestro, and there are few parallels between the material. Where Puente was recording plentiful swing crossovers for RCA ("Tuxedo Junction" and "Take the 'A' Train" in addition to his early masterpiece "Ran Kan Kan"), his material for Tico found him keeping mostly to what his core audience in Spanish Harlem wanted to hear: plentiful hard mambos with the occasional bolero or ballad and, overall, few direct concessions to mainstream music. This was the equivalent of Duke Ellington on OKeh or Charlie Parker on Dial -- recordings for the hardcore faithful that showed a band as it existed instead of as it wanted to be sold. However, despite assumptions either way, that doesn't necessarily make this a better or worse set than the fruits of the RCA years, and indeed, for a crossover audience whose numbers usually overwhelm the core base, Puente's Tico recordings will be less familiar and even less dynamic. But the level of musicianship was high, with future heroes Charlie Palmieri, Mongo Santamaria, and Willie Bobo heard on volume three. In at least one area, however, Puente's band wasn't at its peak, and that was in the vocals. While Vicentico Valdez was heard often on volumes one and two, Gilberto Monroig takes over for most of the vocal features on volume three; he was a fine singer also, but again no equal of the great mambo vocalists. Still, The Complete 78s, Vol. 3 is a treasure trove for Latin fans.
© John Bush /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 40 track(s)
- Total length: 01:47:31
- Main artists: Tito Puente
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Fania
- Genre: World
© 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2009 Craft Recordings, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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