''Mambo Nights'' is a 2000 album from the Latin Jazz ensemble
Conexion Latina. After the
Venezuela
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music
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ian
Alberto Naranjo
Alberto Naranjo ah-rahn'-ho(September 14, 1941 – January 27, 2020) was a Venezuelan musician. His mother, the singer Graciela Naranjo, was a radio, film and television pioneer in her homeland. Largely self-taught, Naranjo embarked on a simil ...
had done some
arrangement
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s for the
German
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salsa
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* Salsa (food), a variety of sauces used as condiments
* Salsa music, a popular style of Latin American music
* Salsa (dance), a Latin dance associated with Salsa music
Salsa or SALSA may also refer to:
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band, he was invited to participate as guest director for the recording of the band’s fourth CD, ''Mambo Nights''. The leader of the legendary
Trabuco Venezolano, Naranjo also contributed with two compositions and provided five
arrangement
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s, along with veterans arrangers
Marty Sheller and
Oscar Hernández. The voices of Javier Plaza, Osvaldo Fajardo and Yma America, and the guest soloists
Dusko Goykovich and
Bobby Shew
Bobby Shew (born March 4, 1941) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player.
Biography
He was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. After leaving college in 1960, Shew was drafted into the U.S. Army and played trumpet and toured ...
, collaborated with the band to create a boiling festive sound for hard-salsa lovers.
Enja Records
Track listing
:Recorded in Munich
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, Germany
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between November 1999 and December 2000.
References
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2000 albums
Conexión Latina albums
Enja Records albums