Conte Candoli: Mambo Diane
Musicians:
Conte Candoli (trumpet), Buddy Collette (tenor sax), Vince Guaraldi (piano), Leroy Vinnegar (bass), Stan Levey (drums).
Composed by Conte Candoli
.Recorded: Hollywood, February 3, 1960
Rating: 94/100 (learn more)
The West Coast style that easterner Horace Silver vilified in 1956 as "faggot-type jazz" had by 1960 wilted as submissively as one of Tennessee Williams's faded Southern belles, making way for virile displays by many of the same musicians. Indeed, this track's West Coast mainstays sound like a road-show Horace Silver Quintet. Even Buddy Collette—charter member of West Coast jazz's most effete ensemble, the Chico Hamilton Quintet—has turned manlier than an aftershave commercial. Embracing another bracing New York import, the Cuban mambo, Candoli & Co. forcefully remind us how childish the bicoastal rivalry was all along. Cha-cha-cha!
Reviewer: Alan Kurtz
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