The Latin Big Band - Latin Heat download free

Some folks say the aroma of coffee & bacon is so much better than the taste. Well, you can also add 50’s latin albums to that list! The covers always titilate so much (& this one is no exception), with the premise of dusky latin lovelies gyrating to the frenzied rhythms of massed ranks of exotic percussion. However the reality is usually banal covers of latin standards like “the Peanut Vendor” (done here of course), more likely to be heard in “Come Dancing”, than downtown Havana. This is full of such unappetising fare, but is worth a spin for “Machito” a horn-laden driving beat that one could imagine being used for chase scenes in 50’s US cop shows like “Dragnet”.