In contrast to Funk Fantastique, this has a really nice sleeve note: full of reminiscences from Pucho about meeting his recently deceased wife at The Hideout, a Harlem club where the band used to play in the early sixties, which was the hangout for the King of the Numbers in Harlem, Spanish Raymond. (You’d have thought he could have found a better moniker than that; even my father was called Ike the Lombard and he was English).
Oh yes, the music. The music’s great, too. Pucho is now leading a much larger band than ever before, with four trumpets, two trombones, one doubling on violin, the great Ed Pazant on alto sax and the usual complement of very rhythm. Lewis Hahn’s violin solos put me in mind of Africando and I found Hahn has played on the last two Africando records, as well as the last two of Pucho - AM
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