EGUIE CASTRILLO & HIS ORCHESTRA: Palladium Tradition

Eguie Castrillo & His Orchestra

Palladium Tradition

© 2005 Eguie Castrillo (786851043228)

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Puerto Rican percussionist Eguie Castrillo’s 18-piece Orchestra proclaims the intensity, the energy and the excitement of Mambo, Son and Cha-Cha-Cha and pays homage to the first Mambo Kings: Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez and Machito.

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The Boston Globe
By Donna Goodison
November 14, 2004

Eguie Castrillo wants to take you back to when mambo was king.The time was the 1950s, when Latin music moved from New York's Spanish Harlem to the Palladium Ballroom at 53d Street and Broadway. The Palladium was the mambo mecca, where Latinos, Italians, and African-Americans flocked to hear the Latin big-band sounds of the orchestras led by Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, and Machito.

''What I really want is for people to go into a time machine and go back to that era," said Castrillo, a Berklee College of Music associate professor who teaches Afro-Cuban percussion. ''The Palladium was a very, very unbelievably important place. That was the first time that Latin music was in downtown New York."

Castrillo counted Puente, who died in 2000, as a friend, mentor, and idol. He credits the Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader for inspiring his musical career. ''I started playing [the timbales] when I was 7 years old," said Castrillo. ''This is the instrument that he really put in front of the orchestra and gave very special treatment to. After many years, I got to play with him and tour with him."

Castrillo has also toured and recorded with Jennifer Lopez, Paquito D'Rivera, Steve Winwood, Celia Cruz, KC and the Sunshine Band, and the Boston Pops. He too scored a Grammy for playing on Arturo Sandoval's ''Hot House."

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  • Excellent
    author: Lynn Quilan

    My favorite music to listen to at any time of day and to dance to. You have taken me back in time and I want to thank you for that. I will certainly purchase your CD and recommend to family and friends.

  • No swing :( Too bad
    author: Philippe Sergues, Changophil

    I am really in between too :( This Cd has a wonderfull energy and it is so good to listen Mambo again an again, getting newer and newer,but but, that true, it is missing essential swing, it is like the Salsa of today,with mecanized rythmic, too Bad because horns are really killing! Ache Philippe (Changophil)

  • author: Emilio

    Excelentisimo, una verdadera maravilla de cd, ojala te podamos disfrutar pronto por la madre patria, un fuerte abrazo

  • Excelent
    author: Julius Huges

    Que feeling tiene esta mùsica. Hace mucho tiempo que no oìa algo latino tan bueno. Me trajo muchìsima nostalgia de la gran mùsica cubana.

  • Muy bueno!
    author: Waldo Pons

    Siga adelante señor Castrillo. La Orquesta suena muy bien y los músicos son de renombre en el ámbito del Mambo moderno.

  • Just Exquisite!!
    author: Ilia Vasquez

    Bravo!!.. sounds very,very good.. i really enjoyed.. just fascinating!!

  • realmente bueno
    author: gfoguel

    con un mix musical interesante,con tonos muy contagiosos.

  • author: Raul Soledad

    This CD has done an injustice with their medley of Boleros that Tito Rodriguez made famous. Absolutely Aweful!

  • author: La Bolero

    El Vocero, I am very very sorry for you man, you are deaft. You dont know the swing. This is a great cd. I am sure it will be a Grammy winner.

  • author: El Vocero

    This CD has no swing! Especially on the tune Caribe Blues

  • Good CD , worth listening to.
    author: Migue S

    I liked the CD. It's good to hear this music played well.

  • información para puerto rico
    author: celia portuondo

    cuándo podremos disfrutar a eguie en puerto rico...su cd debe difundirse aquí y después presentarlo en el roberto clemente...qué le parece?

  • compartí con la audiencia
    author: carmen dj

    adquirí el disco de eguie castrillo en Boston y desde que lo escuché percibí la calidad, el feelling. cuando lo compartí con los oyentes de mi programa todos coincidieron con mi apreciación...uno gritó "merece un grammy"

  • EXCELLENT
    author: Joseph

    This is a great CD. Congrats! Thanks for your music.

  • The New Mambo King
    author: Latin Fan

    Thanks for the music Mr. Castrillo! The CD is a masterpiece of Mambo with the classics and your take on I Call Your Name. When are you playing in New York??

  • author: DJ Ry@

    I`m really proud to have this album in my collection this one really rocks. Mr.Eguie Castrillo sounds really good and like the title says it really sounds like Palladium tradition.

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