SEALED LATIN JAZZ LP MONGO SANTAMARIA “At Village Gate” RIVERSIDE 3529 MONO

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Artist:  MONGO SANTAMARIA and his BAND

Title:   “Mongo at the Village Gate”

Label:   RIVERSIDE.  Monaural pressing.  Catalog number is 3529.   

(Believed to be a first pressing given the fact that it is mono and the jacket is heavy gray cardboard.) 

Personnel:

Mongo Santamaria – conga drums

Marty Sheller – trumpet

Pat Patrick and Bobby Capers – flutes and saxes

Rodgers Grant – piano

Victor Venegas – bass

Frank Hernandez – drums

“Chihuahua” Martinez & Julian Cabrera – Latin percussion.

Year:  1963

Review:

“[This session] finds Mongo Santamaria entering the boogaloo era with a variety of funky pieces that show the influence of R&B and soul-jazz without losing the group's roots in Cuban music.  The infectious live set teams the conguero with trumpeter Marty Sheller, the reeds of Pat Patrick and Bobby Capers, pianist Rodgers Grant, bassist Victor Venegas, drummer Frank Hernandez, and the percussion of Chihuahua Martinez and Julian Cabrera.  Such tunes as "Fatback," "Mongo's Groove," and "Creole" have happy, soulful, and simple melodies.  This is one of Marty Sheller’s best dates on trumpet, while Santamaria takes "My Sound" as a colorful unaccompanied solo..”

(review courtesy Scott Yanow, allmusic.com)

Condition: 

NOTE:  This album came to us STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap as part of the estate of a shop owner who maintained a personal collection of jazz LPs, many of them sealed. 

Album is STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap.  Shrink wrap is clean and bright.  Shrink wrap has tiny breaks at the corner tips.  A scarce album to begin with, and rarer yet to find one in unplayed, factory sealed condition after all these years. This is one for the archives!  

Track Listing:

Side 1:

• Intro by Symphony Sid
• El Toro
• Fatback
• Mongo’s Groove
• Creole

Side 2:

• The Jungle Bit
• My Sound
• The Morning After
• Nothing for Nothing 

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