Les Baxter's "Wild Guitars" (1959) - Capitol Records
Ole Friends,
Tonight we're listening to another fun entry in the Les Baxter Capitol Records library.
Tiki tunes with a Latin and Flamenco flair featuring a trio of classical guitarists-- Nestor Amaral, Joe Carioca and Pepe Gamboa. Andres Segovia this ain't!
Tonight we're listening to another fun entry in the Les Baxter Capitol Records library.
Tiki tunes with a Latin and Flamenco flair featuring a trio of classical guitarists-- Nestor Amaral, Joe Carioca and Pepe Gamboa. Andres Segovia this ain't!
From the opening frenzy of Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance", these tracks contains Baxter's exotic percussion and choral accompaniments accented by the sounds of rhythmic six strings. The standard, "My Buddy" is disguised as a feverish samba. The songs "Mandolino", "Cubana Mulatta" and "Cabayo" are Baxter originals and sound like something you might hear upon entering some South American cantina in the late 1950's.
The album closes with some excellent finger-picking on the speedy "Tico Tico"-- a song composed by Brazilian composer, Zequinha de Abreu in 1917 and made famous not only for its numerous versions but for the fact the Grateful Dead would often play in during their tuning jams between songs. I'll take the Les Baxter version any day!
RATING: 4 Brazilian Slave Songs out of 5
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