A driving two horn Latin-Jazz group with a commercial sound lead by guitarist Charles Alletto and drummer Victor Rendón. The ensemble brings a group of veteran musicians with a wide variety of experience in the field.

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LATIN: Latin Jazz, JAZZ: Jazz-Funk

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Blue Mambo is a driving two horn Latin-Jazz group with a commercial sound lead by guitarist Charles Alletto and drummer Victor Rendón. The ensemble brings a group of veteran musicians with a wide variety of experience in the field and features original compositions by both leaders as well as varied and interesting arrangements by other artists.

Blue Mambo Personnel
Charles Alletto â co-leader, guitar / tres / composer
Victor Rendón âco-leader,drums/percussion/arranger/composer
Guido Gonzalez â trumpet
Al Acosta - sax / flute
Joe Mannozzi â piano/arranger
Solo Rodriguez - bass
Yasuyo Kimura - congas/percussion

Blue Mambo - liner notes

Legendary New Orleans pianist and pioneer Jelly Roll Morton, who claimed to be the âinventorâ of Jazz, was the first to identify some of the essential elements of this vibrant music he thinks he singularly developed. While no one person can be said to have invented Jazz, Morton did get it right when he first talked about the need in Jazz for a âLatin Tingeâ, the inclusion of the myriad rhythms and syncopated accents native to the Spanish speaking Caribbean islands that can give Jazz part of its swagger and sway. Blue Mambo possesses that swagger and sway and bring to it melodic and harmonic augmentation by way of their blithe compositions and muscular improvisations.
Another Jazz original, Louis Armstrong, in a simplistic description of good music, defined it as âthe kind of music that makes you feel better after you heard it than you did before you heard itâ. All these many decades later, Blue Mambo breathes life into words of yesterday through their music today. Simply put; all these rhythms and syncopation will make you feel better.

James Browne
Sirius Satellite Radio

Quotes:

Maestro

How are you? I came home from my student's music recital, and my wife gave me the envolope with your cd. I am listening as I write this note to you. I am very impressed, this is a wonderful cd I have not heard this sound in so long. I sometimes think that Latin Jazz got lost in the shuffle of new sound. Your cd, Blue Mambo, brings back the original sound of Latin Jazz. Congratulations to you and your bandmembers.

Sincierly
Homero Chavez
Pomona, CA