Willie Bobo - Bobo Motion (1967) [Reissue 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 160 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 62 MB | Covers - 58 MB
Genre: Latin Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (0602517685734)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 160 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 62 MB | Covers - 58 MB
Genre: Latin Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (0602517685734)
Recorded and released in 1967, Bobo Motion is one of percussionist Willie Bobo's best-known recordings of the 1960s. The album is best-known for its version of the Sonny Henry nugget "Evil Ways" that Carlos Santana and his band made their own a couple of years later, but there's more to it than that. Since Bobo signed with Verve in 1965, he'd been releasing wily blends of hot Latin tunes, and soul-jazz interpretations of pop tunes of the day. His five previous albums for the label had all been variations on this theme. On the earlier ones, safer pop and easy tunes played with Bobo's trademark hand drum grooves won out over original material. Indeed, 1965's Spanish Grease and 1966's Uno, Dos,Tres 1-2-3 had featured one tune apiece that featured the cooking Afro-Cuban flavored jams he'd become known for, and the rest were either soul-jazz arrangements of Latin standards or "with it" pop tunes of the day…