Tito Puente and his Latin Ensemble: Mambo Diablo (Vinyl-LP)

Mambo Diablo is an album by Tito Puente and his Latin Ensemble, originally released in 1985. The album is one of El Rey's most significant works, and won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Performance.
Release year: 1985.
Label: Concord Picante.
Genre: Latin Jazz, Mambo and Instrumental.
Special guests: British jazz pianist George Shearing makes a guest appearance on "Take Five" and "Lullaby of Birdland".
The album features a mix of Puente's own compositions and well-known jazz standards arranged to Afro-Cuban rhythms:]
Mambo Diablo (Tito Puente)
Take Five (Paul Desmond) – featuring George Shearing
Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn)
Pick Yourself Up (Jerome Kern / Dorothy Fields)
Lullaby of Birdland (George Shearing) – featuring George Shearing
No Pienses Así (Pepe Guizar)
China (Tito Puente)
Eastern Joy Dance (Tito Puente)
Puente led a top-notch orchestra on the album, which included, among others:
Tito Puente: Timpani, vibraphone, percussion and musical direction.
Sonny Bravo: Piano.
Bobby Rodriguez: Bass.
José Madera: Congas and percussion.
Johnny "Dandy" Rodriguez: Bongos and percussion.
Mario Rivera: Saxophone and flute.

The album has been praised in particular for Puente's skillful use of the vibraphone and for bringing mambo to a new audience in the mid-1980s.

FORMAT: LP-VINYL