Estoy Siempre Junto a Ti [Bolero][Outtake] - Tito Puente, Delgado, Pepe
Agua Limpia Todo [Guaguanco] - Tito Puente, Aguabella, Francisc
Varsity Drag [Mambo] - Tito Puente, Brown, Lew
3-D Mambo - Tito Puente, Santos, Ray
Mucho Cha-Cha - Tito Puente, Gilbert, J.
Track Listings (17) - Disc #5
A La Salud - Tito Puente, Geasing, Bert
Frenesi - Tito Puente, Dominguez, Alberto
Perfidia - Tito Puente, Dominguez
Juanita - Tito Puente, Puente, Douglas
Sand in My Shoes - Tito Puente, Loesser, Frank
Tampico - Tito Puente, Fisher
Cha-Cha-Cha - Tito Puente, Puente, Tito
Un Cha Cha - Tito Puente, Garcia, Mike
Doing the Cha-Cha - Tito Puente, Conquet, Johnny
Baubles, Bangles and Beads - Tito Puente, Forrest, George
At the Balalaika - Tito Puente, Forrest, Ghet
Sweet Sue, Just You - Tito Puente, Harris, Will J.
Managua, Nicaragua - Tito Puente, Arvelo
Speak Low - Tito Puente, Nash, Ogden [Author
Comme Ci, Comme Ca (Clopin, Clopant) - Tito Puente, Coquatrix, Bruno
Guaguanc? - Tito Puente, Puente, Tito
Rumba Timbales - Tito Puente, Puente, Tito
Track Listings (16) - Disc #6
The Ceremony of Tamb? - Tito Puente, Puente, Tito
Ritual Drum Dance - Tito Puente, Puente, Tito
Velorio - Tito Puente, Conquet, Johnny
Call of the Jungle Birds - Tito Puente, Lopez, Gilbert
Caonao - Tito Puente, Puente, Tito
Porque Te Perdi - Tito Puente, Cole, Benjamin [Lat
Guancona [Guaguanc?] - Tito Puente, Puente, Tito
Si Te Contara - Tito Puente, Reina, Felix
Son Guach? - Tito Puente, Puente, Tito
Con Sandunga - Tito Puente, Collazo, Julio
Blue Moon - Tito Puente, Hart, Lorenz
So in Love - Tito Puente, Porter, Cole
Moonlight in Vermont - Tito Puente, Blackburn, John
Harlem Nocturne - Tito Puente, Hagen, Earle
Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Tito Puente, Warfield, Charles
I Concentrate on You - Tito Puente, Porter, Cole
This multi-CD box set contains more celebrated tracks from the legendary Tito Puente's RCA recordings of the '50s and '60s. Like the tracks for The Complete RCA Recordings, Vol. 1, this collection showcases selected sid... more »es from several Puente classic LPs, including Top Percussion, Cuban Carnival, Dance Mania, and Mucho Puente. Supported by the best musicians in the business, including congueros Ray Barretto, Candido, and Francisco Aguabella, Puente swings hard in a number of authentic Afro-Cuban grooves. His fierce and frenetic timbales solos made mambos and rumbas like "Complicacion," "Conga Alegre," and "Hot Timbales" timeless classics. On "Vibe Guajira," Puente displays his chops on the vibraphone, and he laces several big band jazz tunes like "Harlem Nocturne," "Moonlight in Vermont," and "Birdland After Dark" with spicy syncopated Cubop flavors. Think of this set as an indispensable aural document detailing the dynamic, dance-oriented genius of the Mambo King. --Eugene Holley Jr.« less
This multi-CD box set contains more celebrated tracks from the legendary Tito Puente's RCA recordings of the '50s and '60s. Like the tracks for The Complete RCA Recordings, Vol. 1, this collection showcases selected sides from several Puente classic LPs, including Top Percussion, Cuban Carnival, Dance Mania, and Mucho Puente. Supported by the best musicians in the business, including congueros Ray Barretto, Candido, and Francisco Aguabella, Puente swings hard in a number of authentic Afro-Cuban grooves. His fierce and frenetic timbales solos made mambos and rumbas like "Complicacion," "Conga Alegre," and "Hot Timbales" timeless classics. On "Vibe Guajira," Puente displays his chops on the vibraphone, and he laces several big band jazz tunes like "Harlem Nocturne," "Moonlight in Vermont," and "Birdland After Dark" with spicy syncopated Cubop flavors. Think of this set as an indispensable aural document detailing the dynamic, dance-oriented genius of the Mambo King. --Eugene Holley Jr.
CD Reviews
Great Music / Another Poor Reissue on the part of RCA
Peter Feng | Wilmington, DE United States | 05/13/2002
(3 out of 5 stars)
"As I said in my review of Vol. 1, this is great music. Vol. 1 was a terrible reissue, however -- just over 4 discs worth of music spread over 6 discs, no personnel listing, no indication of which albums tracks were drawn from. Did RCA correct any of these flaws for volume 2?2 steps forward, 1 step back. Personnel are now listed (in an extremely confusing and inconsistent format, with names listed next to dates for sessions that they played on) -- but this time, the dates of recording were omitted! It would be laughable if it weren't so typical of the major labels.Vol. 2 has 290 minutes of music -- which would easily fit on 4 discs. This time around, the discs are packaged in 3 dual disk boxes, while last time they were packaged in 6 cardboard sleeves. (Either format is fine, consistency would have been nice.)The booklet is a little better this time: the essay tells you (more or less) which LPs the tracks were drawn from, and identifies which tracks were not previously issued or issued only on 78's.If you have both sets, does that mean you have all of TP's RCA output? Nope. For example, there's an alternate take of DANCE MANIA's "Estoy Siempre junto a Ti," but the master take is not available in the two collections. (DANCE MANIA is available on its own.)Verdict: most of the original LPs have been issued on CD, and the programming is superior. If you just want 5 hours of great music and don't care about the context, this set will do you fine.Which is better, vol. 1 or vol. 2? I might give the slight edge to vol. 1, but the tracks seem to have been randomly chosen, so it's not like vol. 2 is second best.I'm glad to have all of this great music: but I think RCA has done a great disservice and shown little respect for El Rey, Tito Puente."