Latin Jazz Descarga!!!, Pt. 1

Cachao

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 16, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1985
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Big World
• ASIN: B00004TB83
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #24,888 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My personal favorite Cachao recording..., December 15, 2006

By	William Jones (Punta Santiago, PR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This may be my favorite Cachao recording. This and part two, along with both Master Sessions and the "Descargas en Miniature." It's hard to choose a favorite, obviously. The personnel on this set is reduced from the other descarga sessions. It's a quartet. Piano, bass, drums (trap set), and percussion.

Incidentally: Walfredo Reyes Sr., Master Drummer on this session, born in Havana, would no doubt recoil from the assertion that this stellar group lacks the power of some of Cachao's other groups. Or, for that matter, that this particular Cachao group does not contain Cubans...

This set is dynamite.

Song titles include:

Caliente
Me Esta Gustando
Loco
Quinto Con Vibrafon
Walpataca
La Leccion
Walfredo
Todo El Corazon

Musicians include:

Francisco (Paquito) Hechavarria Acoustic piano, vibes
Israel Lopez (Cachao) Acoustic bass
Tany Gil Congas, percussion
Walfredo De Los Reyes Drums and percussion

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars more jazz and less jive, July 19, 2003

By	B. London (Chicago) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A bit disappointing compared to Israel Lopez's recent recordings. Instead of surrounding "Cachao" with authentic Cuban musicians this recording, and its sequal-volume 2- is jazz oriented to a piano trio and altho the music is not poorly performed, it never reaches the red hot "ritmos caliente" beat nor feature any guitar or horn accompaniments that blow the music up into the Sun.