TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Tito Puente
Tito Puente
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.4519
Tito Puente Album Rankings
1
Dance Maniais probably Puente's best-known album, appearing as it does in several reissue forms and having inspired subsequentMore Dance ManiaandDance Mania '80stitles.
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2
Summarizing Tito Puente's numerous accomplishments on a single CD would be impossible.
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3
A stunner from Puente's golden age, this 1957 recording brought together Tito,Mongo,Willie Bobo,Aguabella, andJulito Collazoon percussion with vocalists that includedMercedita Valdez, in seven wonderf
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4
While the music that came to be termed "salsa" originated in Cuba, Puerto Ricans have been among its strongest supporters.
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5
Although Latin percussionists (includingMongo Santamaria) are utilized on this set (a RCA album reissued in 1998 as a Koch CD), most of the selections certainly do not sound like they came from a Tito
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6
They'd been calling him "El Rey" for years, but Tito Puente really proved it on this, one of his best original LPs on Tico.
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7
The Best of the Concord Yearscollects 24 tracks over two discs from the final portion of Latin band leader and percussionist Tito Puente's career, which spanned six decades.
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9
One of Tito Puente's earliest jazz-oriented dates, this set (reissued on a 1993 Bluebird CD) matches Puente (doubling on vibes and timbales) with a big band and the bongos ofWilliam Correa.
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10
Tito Puente's Golden Jazz All-Stars, featured on Live at the Village Gate, was an all-star nonet filled with loads of talent: Puente, trumpeter Claudio Roditi, altoist Paquito D'Rivera, flutist Dave
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11
Tito Puente leads a larger band than usual on Master Timbalero, a 13-piece orchestra that includes seven horns (including trumpeter Ray Vega; Mario Rivera on tenor, soprano, and flute; and Bobby Porc
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12
This sizzling, spicy 11-track compilation of Tito Puente's greatest works including his hottest rumbas, mambos, and what is sometimes referred to as the double mambo, the chachachá, is the closest d
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16
For his 97th recording as a leader, instead of welcoming a guest to his Concord Picante date as he usually did during this era, Tito Puente augments his octet on a few selections with a full big band
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23
This session, originally released in 1984 in a garish, psychedelic cover that's too bizarre for words, marks Tito Puente's temporary return to the small-combo sound that originally made his name, aft
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25
This Concord CD was Tito Puente's 99th as a leader and the music is particularly strong.
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49
Although the great Latin bandleader Tito Puente gets first billing and the Count Basie Orchestra "guests" on three of the ten selections, the obvious star of this set is singer India.
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59
Through his consistently infectious series of recordings for Concord Picante, Tito Puente reinforced his position as one of the most important leaders of Latin jazz.
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62
In 1994, Bear Family released Top Percussion/Dance Mania on one compact disc, which contained two complete albums originally released on RCA -- Top Percussion (1957), and Dance Mania (1958) -- by Lat
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