Machito – Hold On I’m Comin’
Machito – Green Onions
Machito – Soul American
Been focused on grading at the end of the semester and haven’t had much time to devote to the blog, but thought I’d knock a quick post out at the end of the week. I’ve never been big on “covers” records that focus more on renditions of “the hits” instead of original material, but when I ran into this record at Groove Merchant I couldn’t resist. Machito is one of the founding fathers of Latin jazz and mambo music. This record finds him updating his sound in mostly predictable ways, but in a few cases the results are latin soul perfection, especially the (mostly) spanish version of Sam & Dave’s “Hold On I’m Comin’.”
Cheers,
Michael