'Bamboleate' was recorded at Bell Sound Studios in June 1967, and released on the Tico Records label, later in the year. It was produced by Pancho Cristal, and engineered by Fred Weinberg. The freeload is a 2007 reissue on the Fania Records label (the parent company of Tico Records).
This was the second collaboration between Eddie and Cal, which followed their 1966 album 'El Sonido Nuevo' and to my ears is the better of their collaborations.
This album is a masterpiece of the era, bridging Cal T'jader's "West Coast" cool with Eddie Palmieri's "East Coast" energy. Together they blend Descarga (a type of improvised Cuban jazz jam session popularized in the 1950s), Salsa, and Latin jazz into a cohesive, sophisticated sound.
Along with Cal's vibraphone and Eddie's piano are:
Barry Rogers, Mark Weinstein and Julian Priester on Trombone
George Castro on Flute
Bobby Rodríguez on Bass
Manny Oquendo on Bongos
Tommy López on Congas
Kako (Francisco Bastar) on Timbales
Tracklist
1. Bamboleate
2. We’ve Loved Before
3. Resemblance
4. Mi Montuno
5. Samba Do Suenho
6. Guajira Candela
7. Pancho's Seis Por Ocho
8. Come An' Get It
This thing cooks from start to finish.
1967 was a remarkable year for music, so for the freeload, what are some of your favorite records from that year?
Seminal year for music:
ReplyDeleteBeatles - Sgt Pepper
Aretha: Never Loved a Man
Otis and Carla - King & Queen
McCoy Tyner - Real McCoy
Jobim - Wave
Still very frequently play all of the above.
Sgt. Pepper
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Something Else by the Kinks
John Wesley Harding - Bob Dylan
Miles Smiles
The Sorcerer - Miles Davis
The Real McCoy
These, in no particular order, are still in regular rotation:
ReplyDeleteElectric Music For The Mind and Body - Country Joe and the Fish
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
Axis: Bold As Love - Jimi Hendrix
Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd
Say Siegel-Schwall -Siegel-Schwall Band
The Doors - The Doors
Absoluetly Free - The Mothers Of Invention
Miles Smiles - Miles Davis
Blow-Up OST - Herbie Hancock
The Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead
Thanks Babs
Siegel-Schwall was where I first heard "I'm a Hog for Ya Baby"
DeleteMcCoy Tyner - ‘The Real McCoy’
ReplyDeleteGrateful Dead - ‘Grateful Dead'
Miles Davis - ‘Miles Smiles’ & ‘Sorcerer’
Charles Lloyd - ‘Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd at Monterey’
Roland Kirk - ‘The Inflated Tear’
The Doors - ‘Strange Days'
Cannonball Adderley - ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!’
Duke Ellington ‘The Far East Suite’
Cream - ‘Disreali Gears'
James Brown - Cold Sweat
Bob Dylan - ‘John Wesley Harding'
Aretha Franklin - ‘I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You’
Arlo Guthrie - ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ (a Thanksgiving tradition in my family)
Leonard Cohen - ‘Songs of Leonard Cohen'
Oh, that Ellington album is fantastic.
DeleteDuke's ‘The Far East Suite’ will be featured here very soon in a super sweet 24bit/192kHz
DeleteDo you have @193kHz?
DeleteSorry, you'll have to make due with the lo-fi of 192 kilohertz.
DeleteGee whiz.
DeleteLooking over today's first entries, you guys have already anticipated most of the titles I was going to mention. I'd only add a few more:
ReplyDeleteOtis Redding - Live in Europe & History of Otis Redding
James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up
Etta James - Tell Mama
Sam & Dave - Soul Men
I was 11, so it was all Beatles and Monkees. Sgt. Pepper's and More of the Monkees. We were AWARE that something was going on in San Francisco, thirty miles to the west. There were lots of garages in the suburbs and so a lot of garage bands. We got to hear sloppy teenage performances of Cream..."Purple Haze..." LSD was on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, and I wanted to do drugs.
ReplyDeleteI was 22. My drugs of choice were weed, pharmaceutical amphetamines, tobacco, and alcohol. Acid was a year away.
DeleteBTW - I have this same lp but its under a different title- simply named Palmieri and Tjader, and has a different cover (re release on Fania and if truth be told, its Ms Pmac's). Great album regardless and looking forward to a sonic upgrade.
ReplyDeleteI'm with @draftervoi, I was too young and had to wait for the drugs! And for my allowance to catch up...
ReplyDeleteMusic from 1967 (some of which didn't get released for years):
Aretha - I Never Loved A Man...
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Hendrix - Axis (still my favourite)
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy
Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Miles - Sorcerer
Roscoe Mitchell - Old/Quartet
and The Youngbloods get 2, The Youngbloods & Earth Music
The Byrds – Younger Than Yesterday
ReplyDeleteThe Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?
Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow
Love – Forever Changes
Van Morrison – Blow Your Mind!
The Rolling Stones – Between The Buttons
Gordon Lightfoot – The Way I Feel
ANON RF: Pretty much my playlist that year, OBG. Wrote something last year that features BTB as the soundtrack. I would add Small Faces, The Doors, Country Joe, The Who, The Kinks, The Monkees, even Paul Revere & The Raiders (many of which are mentioned above and below). What a year!!
DeleteAll of the above, & more! As Frank Sinatra sang (but not in '67 I think), It was a very good year... I'll add more after checking my collection.
ReplyDeleteand...The Doors- Strange Days
DeleteMoody Blues- Nights In White Satin
Beatles- Magical Mystery Tour
Buffalo Springfield- Again
Zappa/Mothers- Absolutely Free
1967 I was 9 and all about the Monkees, though this was the year my friend Ronnie's oldest brother made us listen to a side of The Velvet Underground & Nico and I didn't get it; neither did Ronnie, phew. He also played Hendrix for us, and that got my attention--it was loud and seemed cool. My parents both loved John Wesley Harding, my mom had some Glenn Yarborough record she liked and my father was not thrilled with James Brown's Cold Sweat but I thought it was pretty cool
ReplyDeleteIn 1967 an album purchase was a serious investment - most of my favourites from that year I didn't hear in that year, just individual songs on the radio or shared with friends. It's been catch-up ever since, although I've probably heard all the ones I'm going to like from that year by now.
ReplyDeleteAll of the above and here's a few I don't think anyone's mentioned:
ReplyDeletePink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
Kaleidoscope - Kaleidoscope
Nirvana - The Story Of Simon Simopath
Moby Grape - Moby Grape
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense & Peppermint
The Association - Insight Out
Quicksilver messenger Service - Quicksilver Messenger Service
And
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
Sweet Rain by Stan Getz
ReplyDeleteEastern Man Alone by Charles Tyler
Adam's Apple by Wayne Shorter
Strawberry Fields Forever by you know how.
ReplyDeleteThe year Rock entered FM. It was wild for a couple of years as Djs had "carte blanche", they could play whatever they wanted, and, then... professional managers took over, ptoof, the fun disappeared.
ReplyDeleteIt was also the year small record shops started popping up everywhere.
and... EXPO 67.
I went to Expo 67 in 1968, when the exhibition continued under the name, "Man and His World".
DeleteI was there in 1969 and heard a woman singing "Son Of A Preacher Man" in French. It was incredible- she had a great backing band with horns.
DeleteLes Jerks Électroniques De La Messe Pour Le Temps Présent Et Musiques Concrètes Pour Maurice Béjart
ReplyDeleteLove - Da Capo
ReplyDeleteEr ... '66?
DeleteIn England? Guess I was late to the party. Didn't buy it until August.
DeleteAnd it's half an album!
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Vanilla Fudge, Doors - Strange Days
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Thank you Babs. All killer, no filler. Fantastic album, thanks.
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