Trinidad (1912-1941)

Va-Trinidad | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Harlequin Records
• ASIN: B000001XY9
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #499,715 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Trinidad Paseo - Lovey's Trinidad String Band

2. Manuelito - Lovey's Trinidad String Band

3. Hold Him Joe - Sam Manning's Orchestra

4. Trinidad Carnival Songs - Monrose String Orchestra

5. Bajan Girl - Lionel Belasco

6. Amazon - Lionel Belasco And His Orchestra

7. Mongoose Hop - Lionel Belasco And His Trinidad Orchestra

8. Nancy - Jack Celestain And His Caribbean Stompers

9. Bungo - Sam Manning And His Cole Jazz Orchestra

10. Talking To Myself - Sam Manning's Orchestra

11. I'm Going Your Way - Sam Manning's Orchestra

12. Belle Femme - Sam Manning And His Orchestra

13. Recuerdos Del Pasado - Sam Manning's Rhythm Boys

14. Don't Touch Me - Harmony Kings' Orchestra

15. Marguerite - Gerald Clark And His Caribbean Serenaders

16. Why Me Craf Vex With Me - Emery Cournard Serenaders

17. Under The British Commander - Emery Cournard Serenaders

18. Lopez Contreras - Codallo's Top Hatters Orchestra

19. Happy Man - Georgie Johnson And His Rhythm Kings

20. Memories Of Trinidad - George Cabral

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Last Days of the Spanish Waltz, December 9, 2000

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Lawrence Waldron (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trinidad (1912-1941) (Audio CD)

These are actually a large range of colonial musical hybrid forms from Trinidad with the hypnotic, African stick fight rhythms surgically removed as to not spook the society dames and bow tied gents who went to the dances in old time Port of Spain. Listening to these tunes gives you that very pre-war, stride piano, jazz age, lets put a good show on for the yankees feeling. Yet, even with that wiff of cultural repression, this is an indispensible recording for anyone who can't bear to leave the missing links in Caribbean music un-collected. It is positively riveting, in a rubber necking sort of way, to hear accomplished Calypsonians doing everything from Spanish Waltzes, called paseos or pasillos locally, to Jack Teagarden and Bix Beiderbeck type ditties. Buy it just to gawk at the cross-cultural spectacle.