Featuring: Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, Mario Bauza, Roy Eldridge, Harry Edison, Billy Bauer, Ralph Burns, Buddy Rich, Chino Pozo, Candido Camero, Machito.
On December 21, 1950, the inimitable composer and arranger Chico O’Farrill went into a New York studio with producer and impresario Norman Granz, to record what would become the most influential and revolutionary work in Latin Jazz, the heralded Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite. This date marked the first studio session devoted entirely to O’Farrill’s music, and foreshadowed what would become the most important body of Latin Jazz music ever recorded. From the December 21, 1950 recording of the Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite to the April 16, 1954 session at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, Chico O’Farrill recorded ten separate studio dates with Norman Granz yielding a total of 44 tracks and two complete suites. Although there was a previous attempt at capturing all of his recordings for Granz on one anthology, the release was incomplete. With the addition of the track Muñequita Linda by María Mendez Grever this compilation marks the first edition to contain Chico O’Farrill’s complete Norman Granz recordings. (freshsoundrecords. com)
Tracklist:
CD 01:
1.1. Avocadoes
1.2. Taboo
1.3. JATP Mambo
1.4. Duerme
1.5. Almendra
1.6. The disappearance
1.7. Cuban Blues
1.8. Sin titulo
1.9. Dance One
1.10. Bright one
1.11. Flamingo
1.12. Last one
1.13. Tierra va tembla
1.14. Vamos pa la rumba
1.15. Mambo korula
1.16. Frizilandia
1.17. Peanut vendor
1.18. Ill Wind (You're Blowing Me No Good)
1.19. Malagueña
1.20. Castígala
1.21. Medley: The Second Afro-Cuban
1.21.1. Introductory
1.21.2. Pregon
1.21.3. 6 / 8
1.21.4. Jazz And Transition
1.21.5. Canción Antigua
1.21.6. Rumba Finale
1.22. Muñequita Linda
CD 02:
2.1. Havana Special
2.2. Carioca
2.3. Fiesta Time
2.4. Heat Wave
2.5. It Ain't Necessarily So
2.6. Guess What
2.7. Cry Baby Blues
2.8. Lamento
2.9. You stepped out of a dream
2.10. Cachita
2.11. Rumbonsito
2.12. Te quiero dijiste
2.13. Siboney
2.14. Angel's flight
2.15. Tres palabras
2.16. No te importe saber
2.17. Vaya con dios
2.18. Pianarabatibiri
2.19. L. A. mambo
2.20. Quiéreme mucho
2.21. More mambo
2.22. Mambo for Bunto
2.23. Botellero
2.24. Medley: Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite
2.24.1. Introduction - Canción
2.24.2. Mambo
2.24.3. Transition
2.24.4. Introduction To 6 / 8
2.24.5. 6 / 8
2.24.6. Transition And Jazz
2.24.7. Rhumba Abierta - Part 1
2.24.8. Coda
Released 2005.