Machito & His Salsa Big Band

Machito & His Salsa Big Band 1982

Machito and his Salsa Big Band 1982 is the Afro-Cuban salsa jazz orchestra led by Machito aka Frank Raul Grillo, who emigrated to New York City in the late 1930's. Machito is credited to be one of the innovators fusing jazz/be-bop with Afro-Cuban rhythms into salsa. His orchestra performs seven infectious salsa tracks, all written by Machito and recorded in 1983 at the Fendal Sound Studio's (Holland), in a short four hours mostly one take per tune. This reissue comes on 180 gram vinyl and contains liner notes written by Dutch saxophone player Hans Dulfer.

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