Bobby Valentin Young Man With a Horn lp

lp
2011/1966
new
Puerto Rican trumpeter/bass player who came up through Tito Rodriguez' band & wrote arragements for Charlie Palmieri & Ray Barretto. This was his 2nd album as a leader, and it's a stone killer. Huge variety, with ballads sung by Junior Morales, badass jazz vamps that sound like mid-period Coltrane quartet (but zipping along at double speed), and some startling & cool pop covers. The stinging & foreboding arrangement for 'Batman' alone is enough to warrant pulling this one out over & over. Tracklisting: Que Pollito, Maina, Batman's Bugaloo, Amor Ciego, The Gate, Que Buena La Rumba, Song for my Father, Oye Me Bien, Geronimo, La Rumba te Espero, Good Lovin.