Name: El Rey: A Man and His Music
Brand: Fania
SKU: 1212541
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El Rey: A Man and His Music

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Album: El Rey: A Man and His Music
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Abaniquito - (featuring Vicentico Vald‚s)
2)	Vibe Mambo
3)	Mambo Diablo, El
4)	Mambo Inn
5)	Ran Kan Kan
6)	Stick on Bongo
7)	Caramelos - (featuring Santos Colon)
8)	Timbalero - (featuring Rudy Calzado)
9)	Agua-Nile - (featuring Santos Colon)
10)	Sambaroco
11)	Baba Mi - (featuring Bobby Escoto)
12)	Oye Como Va - (featuring Santos Colon)
13)	Tokyo de Noche
14)	Loco Bossa Nova
15)	Barbarabatiri - (featuring Santos Colon)
16)	Kwa Kwa - (featuring Santos Colon)
17)	Ay Cari¤o - (featuring Santos Colon)
18)	Cochise
19)	Caribe
20)	Mas Bajo
21)	Timbalito - (featuring Santos Colon)
22)	Jumpin' with Symphony Sid
23)	Corta el Bonche - (featuring Santos Colon)
24)	Guarachera, La - (featuring Celia Cruz)
25)	Oriente - (featuring La Lupe)
1)	Algo Nuevo
2)	Chan
3)	Safari
4)	TP's Shing-A-Ling - (featuring Santos Colon)
5)	Hit the Bongo
6)	Observalo
7)	Batuka
8)	Ni¤a y Se¤ora
9)	Para los Rumberos
10)	Rey del Timbal, El - (featuring Frankie Figueroa)
11)	Picadillo
12)	Black Brothers
13)	Wata Wasuri
14)	Margie's Mood
15)	Tito's Odyssey/La Odisea de Tito
16)	Leyenda, La - (featuring Santos Colon)
17)	Fiesta a la King
18)	Que Bueno Baila Usted - (featuring Hector Casanova/Adalberto Santiago/Celia Cruz)
19)	Generaci¢n del 80 - (featuring Frankie Figueroa)
20)	Guaguanc¢ Arsenio - (featuring Azuquita)

Album: El Rey: A Man and His Music
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Abaniquito - (featuring Vicentico Vald‚s)
2)	Vibe Mambo
3)	Mambo Diablo, El
4)	Mambo Inn
5)	Ran Kan Kan
6)	Stick on Bongo
7)	Caramelos - (featuring Santos Colon)
8)	Timbalero - (featuring Rudy Calzado)
9)	Agua-Nile - (featuring Santos Colon)
10)	Sambaroco
11)	Baba Mi - (featuring Bobby Escoto)
12)	Oye Como Va - (featuring Santos Colon)
13)	Tokyo de Noche
14)	Loco Bossa Nova
15)	Barbarabatiri - (featuring Santos Colon)
16)	Kwa Kwa - (featuring Santos Colon)
17)	Ay Cari¤o - (featuring Santos Colon)
18)	Cochise
19)	Caribe
20)	Mas Bajo
21)	Timbalito - (featuring Santos Colon)
22)	Jumpin' with Symphony Sid
23)	Corta el Bonche - (featuring Santos Colon)
24)	Guarachera, La - (featuring Celia Cruz)
25)	Oriente - (featuring La Lupe)
1)	Algo Nuevo
2)	Chan
3)	Safari
4)	TP's Shing-A-Ling - (featuring Santos Colon)
5)	Hit the Bongo
6)	Observalo
7)	Batuka
8)	Ni¤a y Se¤ora
9)	Para los Rumberos
10)	Rey del Timbal, El - (featuring Frankie Figueroa)
11)	Picadillo
12)	Black Brothers
13)	Wata Wasuri
14)	Margie's Mood
15)	Tito's Odyssey/La Odisea de Tito
16)	Leyenda, La - (featuring Santos Colon)
17)	Fiesta a la King
18)	Que Bueno Baila Usted - (featuring Hector Casanova/Adalberto Santiago/Celia Cruz)
19)	Generaci¢n del 80 - (featuring Frankie Figueroa)
20)	Guaguanc¢ Arsenio - (featuring Azuquita)

Performer Notes

Audio Remasterer: Alex Abrash.
Liner Note Author: Andrew Mason.
Photographers: Chuck Stewart; Joe Conzo.
Fania had already gone the completist route with Tito Puente, compiling all of his earliest 78-rpm recordings from the '40s and '50s, but El Rey represents something else: an excellent career summation of the man who meant more to Latin music than anyone else during the last half of the 20th century. Mambo leader extraordinaire, father of salsa music, and standard-bearer for virtuoso Latin music through its eventual fusion with jazz during the '80s and '90s, Puente's personality and performances (in concert or on The Cosby Show) often obscured the brilliance of his recordings, but the 45 recordings heard here -- ranging from 1949 through 1981, all originally released on the Tico label and placed in chronological order -- put the focus back on what he set down with his excellent band. The set begins with his earliest and best mambos, "Ran Kan Kan" and "Mambo Inn" and "Abaniquito," then spends well over an hour focusing on his work of the '60s, when "Agua-Nile" and "Oye Como Va" and "Caribe" showed Latin audiences and a huge number of crossover fans that Latin music had both high energy and extraordinary finesse. The second disc shows Puente moving into the '70s, adding to his palette with records like 1973's Tito Puente and His Concert Orchestra (which gets several numbers here). ~ John Bush