Make Mine Mambo!

Subtitle: 25 outrageous classics from the golden age of Cuba's big bands. Issued under licence from EGREM. [from liner notes:] But in the late Forties it was the mambo - uptempo, horns-blazing, full of delicious hooklines, but slightly sleazy -that left people panting. What a sound: rumba meets jazz, and uses tongues on the first date! Moré (a roustabout who died of cirrhosis of the liver at 44), Celeste Mendoza (his female counterpoint, though less of a raver), Aragon, Orquesta Riverside (na...