"AFRODESIAC JAZZ" A New Kind Of Mambo Vol. 30

"It was an atmosphere in which a Cuban step could fuse with a pseudo Middle-Eastern 'Salome Dance' and race mixing added spice to the rowdier late night joints…
...The whole point of the dance craze was that ,to an ever increasing degree,the professionals and aristocracy were on the sidelines.Anyone who wanted to see the latest styles at their wildest and best had to seek them out among young,working class couples dancing for their own pleasure."-Elijah Wald on the Barbary Coast ragtime scene of the early 20th century.
This Mildred Bailey track brings to mind Charlie "Redskin Rhumba" Barnet's account of his time in Havana 1935 : "I couldn't work as a musician in Cuba,so I became a kind of gigolo.Cruise ships would arrive regularly in Havana and there were lonely women looking for thrills in a foreign country.My headquarters was Sloppy Joes,a popular bar all the tourists visited.For a fee,I would take the women to all the nightspots,as well as to sex shows if they wished. I was able to make pretty good time with some of them... Havana was a wide open town then and you could get anything you wanted."
trax:
1. caravan - Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra 2. Moon Over Cuba - Duke Ellington 3. The Weekend of a Private Secretary - Mildred Bailey 4. La masucamba - Lecuona Cuban Boys 5. mussieu a têt'a poisson la - Orchestre Combo Zombi et Michel Yéyé 6. henri te vlé mayé - Robert Mavounzy Quartet 7. Taboo - Frank Trumbauer & His Orchestra 8. España - Charles Fox 9. Charibango - Henri Rossotti 10. Mambo c'est rosse - Benny Bennet 11. Viva Prado - Stan Kenton 12. Mambo Del 65 - Perez Prado 13. Sweet And Gentle (Me Lo Dijo Adela) - Eartha Kitt w/Perez Prado & his Orchestra 14. Blues Mambo - Sonny Thompson 15. Like Young - Illinois Jacquet 16. Safradesia - Don Ralke et Son Orchestre 17. You Got Me Crazy - Lew Conetta 18. Pretty Good Love - Holly Golightly 19. Sneakin' Up On You - Peggy Lee 20. Crime In Beat - Fred Berlipp Band 21. El Tecolote - Calvin Cool 22. Tequila - Carlos Campos Y Su Orquesta 23. el timbalito - Federico Y Su Combo Latino 24. Lluvia Con Nieve - Los Supremos 25. Babalu - Bebo Valdés 26. Toscana Pachanga - Charles Fox 27. Black Orpheus Manha De Carnaval - Orquesta Broadway
Compiled by Johnny Q from his music collection - originally served by Gyro1966