#759 Machito - Kenya

Further Afro-Cuban jazz, full of big band horns and runs and blasts. It sounds not unlike the just-reviewed Dance Mania, but the horn hits are more brash, the tone a bit less fun, and the lineup lacking a vocalist. That last one gives this a different feel, better suited for enticing background music than full front-and-center Entertainment. Still, the horns reach for the sun, in solos and in groups, endless and unstoppable, with rhythms out on to sunset 3.5/5