Tito Puente – “The King of Mambo”

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Tito Puente is known as The King of Mambo

What are your top picks for the best international albums of 2010?Tell us about your selection here.

Even those who don’t know Latin jazz tend to know Tito Puente. He is not known as “The King of Mambo” for nothing. His music has appeared in many films, most notably, perhaps, “The Mambo Kings.” Tom Schnabel gives us a refresher on Puente’s roots and looks at a new release of his music. Download MP3

Find Tito Puente’s CDs here

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13 comments for “Tito Puente – “The King of Mambo””

  • http://www.theworld.org The World

    Tell us about your top picks for the best international albums of 2010 here.

  • Marty Miller

    I would have to say Rodrigo Y Gabriela’s album, “11:11,” is one of the best international albums of 2010 and perhaps on of the greatest of the decade.
    These two make a universally rocking sound I believe many music lovers around the world can enjoy.

    Love the program, keep it up!

    –Marty Miller,
    Urbana, IL

    • sophie_bot

      I CONCUR…RODRIGO Y GABRIELA HAS A GREAT SOUND AS SIBLING DUO.

      CHECK OUT THE PHANTOM BAND’S CHECKMATE SAVAGE OR THE WANTS (2010)

      WORTH THE LISTEN I PROMISE! :)

  • http://www.fishtankensemble.com/ Daria Stoner

    A California band, but widely varied international music and musicians from U.S., France, Serbia. Fascinating variety of instruments, energetic musicians–these folks need to be widely discovered, world-wide.

  • http://www.fishtankensemble.com/ Daria Stoner

    Yikes, forgot to actually say the group in my prior post is called Fishtank Ensemble!

    • http://www.chemikal.co.uk/ sophie_bot

      ever listened to penguin cafe orchestra?

      or the phantom band? :)

  • Kim Hunter

    My vote goes to AfroCubism, a great hybrid of African and Afro-Cuban and a long time coming.

  • David Lohse

    Isis Flores
    Album is Sola
    Young Cuban girl from Havana
    All recording was done in Havana
    makes alot of music with very little resources.
    Thanks
    David

  • http://greenpearreview.com Kristine Maitland

    My pick? Janelle Monáe’s The Archandroid, without a doubt.

    David Bowie met James Brown and birthed this talented young lady. Her CD is not to be heard – it’s to be experienced.

  • Robin Winning

    Otra Cosas by Julieta Venegas.

  • dan fitts

    Issa Juma, “World Defeats the Grandfathers.” East African rumba of the 1980s, collected and rereleased in 2010. A superb recording of deeply satisfying, melodious, guitar-rich music.

  • sophie_bot

    BEST ALBUM: “THE WANTS”
    BY: THE PHANTOM BAND
    FROM: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UK

    AMAZING BEATS, ABORIGINAL FUNK WITH DYNAMIC AND HAUNTING VOCALS.

    FAVE!!!!

    • http://www.chemikal.co.uk/ sophie_bot

      It’s finally arrived and finds our favourite sonic explorers scaling new heights of ****-magicness. ‘The Wants’ is nine tracks long, as perplexing and exhilarating as we’ve all come to expect and is bound, we’re sure, to cement their reputation as one of the most inventive acts making music today. Here’s the tracklisting…