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Sugar Daddy

Sugar Daddy
Eddie Palmieri & La Perfecta

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Average customer review:
Angus says... "I had this album on repeat when I first got it! I am a big Eddie Palmieri fan and this has some of his best on it - great for dancers as it has some slow and some fast."

Track Listing

  1. Ritmo Caliente
  2. Mi Mambo Conga
  3. Bailare Tu Son
  4. Azucar
  5. Tirandote Flores
  6. Que Suene La Orchestra
  7. Tema Del Apollo
  8. No Critiques
  9. Melao Para El Sapo
  10. Cafe
  11. Te Quiero Te Quiero
  12. Muneca
  13. Conmigo
  14. Lo Que Traigo Es Sabroso
  15. Estamos Chao
  16. Bomboncito De Pozo
  17. Manha De Carnival
  18. En Cadenas
  19. Campesinos

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #209321 in Music
  • Released on: 2007-04-30
  • Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

The real deal - authentically hip dancefloor rhythms from 60s Latin big band 4
In the language of Puerto Rican New Yorker Eddie Palmieri's black audiences, "sugar" was the hot, sticky, sweat-soaked music they loved. Palmieri's big band played that music at regular shows at NYC's Palladium ballroom from '61 to '67, when the band broke up through lack of cash.

Influenced early on by the music of jazz pianists Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner, Palmieri formed Conjunto La Perfecta on the back of the early 60s Latin dance craze. Deftly mixing Salsa, Cuban mambo, African and American jazz inflections, the band caught the imagination of New York audiences across cultural and ethnic divides. His innovative trombone led approach, courtesy of Polish Jew Barry Rogers, helped give the band its characteristic style - since referenced and revisited by Jools Holland's big-band trombonist Rico.

This greatest hits collection trawls through the band's best-known 60s, repertoire, taking in albums such as Echando Pa'lante, Mozambique, and Molasses, though the highlight is probably the extraordinary nine-minute hit single Azucar - in which piano improvisation from classically trained Palmieri which takes you on a journey through musical styles before giving way to the cheeky-birdsong of George Castro's flute.

Palmieri is still alive and going strong, and his new music is still influencing all kinds of postmodern borrowings and smug reinventions. Nevertheless, the recordings from this classic era of Latin dance music are the real deal. If you love polyrhythmic percussion, free-spirited improvisation and you just love to dance, check out this wonderful retrospective collection.

- Clare O'Brien, as puhblished at subba-cultcha.com