ARTIST: Afro Bop Alliance
TITLE: Camino Nuevo
LABEL: Mambo Maniacs
GENRE: Jazz
BITRATE: 197kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 03min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-00-00
RIP DATE: 2007-02-16
TRACK LIST
1. Soon 6:38
2. Lo Time 7:11
3. Seven Steps To Heaven 6:36
4. Armando's Rumba 5:26
5. Tom Thumb 6:08
6. Peruchin 5:32
7. In Love In Vain 4:50
8. Afro Green 8:16
9. Back To Bayview 6:23
10.Bye-Ya 6:35
RELEASE NOTES
Afro Bop Alliance is an Afro-Cuban Jazz Septet based in Annapolis Maryland,
performing extensively throughout the Washington DC-Baltimore area and
Mid-Atlantic region. ABA is led by drummer Joe McCarthy and features Felix
Contreras-congas, Harry Appelman-piano, Max Murray-bass, Luis
Hernandez-saxophone, Tim Stanley-trumpet, and Dan Drew-trombone. The band has
been featured at the Duke Ellington Jazz festival, the Silver Spring Jazz
Festival, the JFKennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The SmithsonianÆs Jazz
CafΘ, The SmithsonianÆs Museum of American History-Jazz Appreciation Month, The
WC Handy Jazz Festival-Florence Alabama, Club Satalla- NYC, Georgetown
University Jazz Festival, and the Rams Head Tavern. ABA has recorded and or
performed with Poncho Sanchez, Antonio Hart, Dave Samuels, Arturo OÆ Farrill,
Michael Phillip Mossman and Ray Vega. The bandÆs debut CD, Encarnacion,
featuring Arturo OÆ Farrill and Ray Vega, has received rave reviews and
international acclaim. Afro BopÆs latest CD, Camino Nuevo, featuring Poncho
Sanchez and Dave Samuels, will be the bandÆs debut recording on Mambo Maniacs
Records.