Frankie Figueroa Discography of CDs

Frankie Figueroa music CDs  

Frankie Figueroa albums 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 ...

Frankie Figueroa CD discography Tito Puente was a percussionist, bandleader, and composer whose music and style bridged modern jazz and mambo, Afro-Cuban and 1970's rock, and got lots of generations dancing in the process. Puente also influenced the rock band Santana, as well as many others both in and beyond the ...

Frankie Figueroa discography Personnel includes: Tito Puente (percussion); Celia Cruz, Adalberto Santiago, Ismael Miranda, Hector Lavoe, Cheo Feliciano, Luigi Texidor, Ismael Quintana (vocals); Frankie Figueroa, Nestor Sanchez, Ray De La Paz, Carlos Valdes, Santos Colon.

Frankie Figueroa songs Personnel: Tito Puente (vibraphone, timbales, percussion). Personnel includes: Tito Puente (percussion); Celia Cruz, Adalberto Santiago, Ismael Miranda, Hector Lavoe, Cheo Feliciano, Luigi Texidor, Ismael Quintana (vocals); Frankie Figueroa, Nestor Sanchez, Ray De La Paz, Carlos Valdes, Santos Colon.

Frankie Figueroa CD discography Tito Puente: Tito Puente; Paulo Di Paula, Tony Barrerro (trumpet); Richard Caruso, Jimmy Frisaura (trombone); Andy González (bass instrument); John Rodriguez Jr. (bongos); Héctor "Bomberito" Zarzuela, Lionel Sanchez, Frankie Figueroa, Mario Rivera, Mark Friedman , Nestor Sanchez, Ray de la Paz, Azuquita, Bobby Porcelli, Sonny Bravo, Mitch Frohman, Larry Farrell. Personnel: Tito Puente (piano, timbales, percussion, background vocals); Camilo Azuquita ...

Frankie Figueroa albums Recording information: La Tierra, New York, NY. Arrangers: Charlie Palmieri; Roy Roman; Bobby Valentín. Personnel: Charlie Palmieri (melodica, piano, organ); Charlie Palmieri; Menique (vocals, background vocals); Julito Villot (vocals); Louis Laurita, Loui Laurita (trumpet); Mark Katz, Mark Katz (trombone); Bobby Rodriguez (bass guitar); Papiro Allende (congas, conga drum); Willie Rodgriguez, Willie Rodriguez (bongos); Quique Davila (timbales); Frankie Figueroa, Adalberto Santiago, Vitín ...