King Of Kings (The Very Best Of Tito Puente) - Tito Puente

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...The San Francisco Bay Area rock scene of the late '60s was one that encouraged radical experimentation and discouraged the type of mindless conformity that's often plagued corporate rock. When one considers just how different Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and the Grateful Dead sounded, it becomes obvious just how much it was encouraged. In the mid-'90s, an album as eclectic as Abraxas would be considered a marketing exec's worst nightmare. But at the dawn of the 1970s, this unorthodox mix of rock, jazz, salsa and blues proved quite successful. Whether adding rock elements to salsa king Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va," tembracing instrumental jazz-rock on "Incident at Neshabur" and "Samba Pa Ti" or tackling moody blues-rock on Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman," the band keeps things unpredictable yet cohesive. Many of the Santana... Read review

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...Michael and the mess he is now in. I wonder at what actual point in Michael's life did he go completely insane? It is easy to equate the man today, with his awful music and 'heal the world, feed the children, save the elephants' posturing, with the sheer insanity we see in his daily life, but I find it hard to consider that the same man made some of the best music of the 1970's and 80's. At some point along the line, something in his head flipped. Anyway, closing the album is Tito Puente with 'Mambo Gozon', which closes the album in classy style. I remember Tito Puente from his appearance on 'The Simpsons' years ago as the new jazz teacher at the school, and I had assumed that he was just a fictional character. Ah well, you live, you learn. There are also three hidden tracks on the album, some very funny mock jingles and advertisements, which... Read review

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...out of the correlation between quiet parts and quite hard rock. Without doubt one of the best songs ever written for a movie. 5) “Angry Cockroaches” was written for the first bar scene in “FDTD” and was thought to strengthen the atmosphere in the Titty Twister. So this fast, punky, part-instrumental song dealing with smoking grass came into being. 6) “Back to the house” is another song from “Desperado” and the best song the band ever wrote. Just great rock music with excellent guitar work. 7) “Jupiter” features Tito’s most ardent singing parts. 8) "Sweet cycle" and 9) "Flying in my sleep" both jump the queue, being very slow songs with almost poetic lyrics. Nevertheless good music. 10) "Killing just for fun" starts as a quite slow song but raises into a very passionate... Read review

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