Los Hombres Calientes, Vol. 3: New Congo Square

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New Congo Square
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Studio album by Irvin Mayfield & Bill Summers
Released April 17, 2001
Recorded August 2000–January 2001
Genre Afro-Cuban jazz
Label Basin Street Records
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New Congo Square is the third studio album released by the New Orleans-based Afro-Cuban jazz group Los Hombres Calientes, co-led by trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and Bill Summers. This marks the band's first album without drummer Jason Marsalis.

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Afro-Cuban jazz is the earliest form of Latin jazz. It mixes Afro-Cuban clave-based rhythms with jazz harmonies and techniques of improvisation. Afro-Cuban jazz emerged in the early 1940s with the Cuban musicians Mario Bauzá and Frank Grillo "Machito" in the band Machito and his Afro-Cubans in New York City. In 1947, the collaborations of bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and percussionist Chano Pozo brought Afro-Cuban rhythms and instruments, such as the tumbadora and the bongo, into the East Coast jazz scene. Early combinations of jazz with Cuban music, such as "Manteca" and "Mangó Mangüé", were commonly referred to as "Cubop" for Cuban bebop.

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Contents

Track listing

  1. "Forforo Fo Firi" 4:55
  2. "Intro"  :06
  3. "Brother Runnin' (Mark's Groove, Pt. 1)" 4:47
  4. "Brother Getin' Caught (Mark's Groove, Pt. 2)" 3:23
  5. "Fantizias de Samba" 3:59
  6. "New Second Line (Mardi Gras 2001)" 7:19
  7. "Jah Rastafarai" 3:13
  8. "New Bus Stop" 5:24
  9. "El Negro, Pt. 1" :32
  10. "El Negro, Pt. 2" 3:33
  11. "El Negro, Pt. 3" 3:05
  12. "Dominicanos" :36
  13. "Corcovado/Nocturnal Low Moan" 3:32
  14. "Africa N.O. (Ed's Groove)" 3:13
  15. "Sentimientos" 7:51
  16. "Nyabingi" 1:13
  17. "I Shot the Sherriff" 3:56
  18. "Bandera" 2:39
  19. "Digidall" 4:38
  20. "Warrior Suite, Pt. 1" 2:10
  21. "Warrior Suite, Pt. 2" 2:19
  22. "Warrior Suite, Pt. 3" 1:10
  23. "Call It What You Want" 4:58

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References

  1. ↑ Adler, David R.. Los Hombres Calientes, Vol. 3: New Congo Square at AllMusic
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