{"product_id":"afro-cuban","title":"Afro-Cuban","description":"Personnel: Kenny Dorham (trumpet); Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone); Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Jay Jay Johnson (trombone); Horace Silver (piano); Oscar Pettiford, Percy Heath (bass); Art Blakey (drums); Carlos \"Potato\" Valdes (congas).\u003cbr\u003eProducer: Alfred Lion.\u003cbr\u003eReissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on January 30 and March 29, 1955. Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather and Michael Cuscuna.\u003cbr\u003eThe late Kenny Dorham was a fairly unique figure in jazz, in that he played with Charlie Parker and Andrew Hill, representatives of both the original bebop school and with the Blue Note post-bop scene of the 1960s. AFRO-CUBAN, originally issued in 1955, is one of Dorham's finest albums, highlighting his skill as composer, bandleader, and, of course, trumpeter. Half the album is a melding of melodically imaginative bop and the African-based rhythms of Cuba and the Caribbean, while the remainder is more straight-up bebop. The playing is exemplary and fresh, as befitting a posse of players that includes Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, and Art Blakey in their younger days. The tunes, nearly all originals, are tight and trim--all killer, no filler.","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45317499355423,"sku":"602537813858","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/cde296419af6c842d29cae5d59ae949d_d9254312-8b67-4561-9d75-ce946dcfb53d.jpg?v=1773832268","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/afro-cuban","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}