Banqueto - Tito Puente
When it comes to music, the Internet is increasingly fulfilling its early promise as the ultimate library. Though much of the music it holds is illegally or quasi-legally posted, sometimes it feels like you can find nearly everything ever recorded online if you're willing to do some serious digging.
Thankfully it's not always necessary to resort to this vast gray market to find great music that fell out of print decades ago. In 2008 legitimate record labels continued to churn out killer reissues--so many, in fact, that I was often tempted to simply let myself recede into the past, basking in vintage sounds as fresh and vital as anything made today.
Leading the charge over the past couple years has been the revived Fania Records, which was the key salsa label from the 60s through the early 80s. One of the label's best reissues of 2008 went back even further, though--the music on the first two volumes of Tito Puente's The Complete 78s (two more are on the way) originally came out on the great Tico label in the late 40s and early 50s.
Puente, a New York native, first made a splash in the early 40s, as the timbale player in Machito's big band--his flair for the dramatic inspired his boss to move him to the front of the stage, a position that soon became standard for all timbaleros. After returning from the war and forming his own band, Puente put out a ridiculous number of records. The four Fania double-CD collections will include all 156 tracks he cut for 78 RPM release between 1949 and 1955 in New York City--ground zero of the mambo craze he helped fuel, where nightclubs like the Palladium drew the hip and beautiful with a steady diet of Afro-Caribbean sounds.
Puente enjoyed a long and fruitful career, but these recordings are some of his most potent and important, setting the stage for the salsa explosion of the 60s. Though he'd later weather and adapt to just about every mutation the music went through, with these songs he was shaping it himself.
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There are also legal ways to get music on the Internet. I LOVE my Rhapsody program; I pretty much get any music I want that way. Perfectly legal and at a very low cost.
My husband LOVES Puente. I should let him read this review.
Angela from Aberdeen
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