Loose Cuts
Tito Puente and His Concert Orchestra
- Composer
- de Falla
- Released
- 1973
- Label
- Tico Records
- Forces
- Big band
Puente’s reputation rested on dance music and spectacular timbales playing, but he was also a serious big-band writer with an appetite for jazz harmony. His “Ritual Fire Dance” puts de Falla inside that orchestral Afro-Cuban language, giving the familiar melody to brass and reeds while the percussion supplies a completely different kind of fire.
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The classical side carries the source work this cut came from. The jazz side carries the cut itself. Each player holds what is available, and the two need not match.
The originalsde Falla: El amor brujo, Danza ritual del fuego
Jazzed upRitual Fire Dance
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The cut
The classical-derived cut from this record, with its source work.
- Ritual Fire Dancede Falla: El amor brujo, Danza ritual del fuego