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Eguie Castrillo & His Orchestra : Palladium Tradition
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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.
Genre: Latin: Mambo
Release Date: 2005
Palladium Tradition
Eguie Castrillo & His Orchestra
Record Label: Coyeyo Records
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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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REVIEWS

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.

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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)

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

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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.

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