Artist: Mongo Santamaria
Album: Workin’ On a Groovy Thing
Genre: Jazz, Latin Jazz
Release Date: 1969/2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 32:52
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 753 MB

Tracklist:

1. Mongo Santamaria – Workin’ On a Groovy Thing (03:17)
2. Mongo Santamaria – Spinning Wheel (02:57)
3. Mongo Santamaria – Too Busy Thinking About My Baby (02:29)
4. Mongo Santamaria – We Got Latin Soul (03:04)
5. Mongo Santamaria – Getting It Out of My System (03:14)
6. Mongo Santamaria – Proud Mary (03:37)
7. Mongo Santamaria – It’s Your Thing (02:57)
8. Mongo Santamaria – My Cherie Amour (03:09)
9. Mongo Santamaria – Get Back (02:55)
10. Mongo Santamaria – Ain’t That Peculiar (02:46)
11. Mongo Santamaria – Twenty-Five Miles (02:22)

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The Mongo Santamaria/Columbia formula of Top 40 tunes retrofitted with an Afro-Cuban boogaloo beat gets another hyperactive workout here. The title tune, “Spinning Wheel,” “Proud Mary,” “My Cherie Amour” and “Get Back” are among the choices here, with Sonny Fortune occasionally scorching the earth on alto sax (and probably on flute), Joe Farrell turning up on tenor, and ever-versatile Bernard “Pretty” Purdie stoking the fires alongside Mongo. Yet the band is finally beginning to show some audible weariness with the whole operation — for which one cannot blame them. ~ Richard S. Ginell