Bongos, Baby, Bongos!
If one instrument symbolized Space Age Pop at its height, it was the bongos. Just putting "Bongos" in your title guaranteed some hi-fi nut would buy it (vid. HiFi's packaging of Bob Florence's choice jazz band charts as Bongos/Reeds/Brass).
- The End on Bongos, Jack Burger (HiFi)
- Jack Burger put the bongos into the hands of many a would-be beatnik with this and its companion instructional record, Let's Play Bongos.
- Bongo, Bongo, Bongo, Los Admiradores (Command)
- Truth in advertising by this group, otherwise known as Terry Snyder and the All-Stars or Enoch Light and the Light Brigade.
- Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat, Buddy Collette (Crown)
- West Coast jazz sax/flute/clarinet man Collette cut this tasty slice of combo jazz. One of the few legitimate original recordings on Crown, but that doesn't mean it has any liner notes, either.
- Bagels and Bongos, Irving Fields Trio (Decca)
- Veteran cocktail pianist Fields adds bongos to his group to spice things up. Scores with listening public. Result: formula repeated on subsequent albums with "Pizza," "Champagne," "Bikinis," and "More Bagels."
- Just Bongos, Phil Kraus and Bob Rosengarden (Time)
- The perennial percussionist pair minces no words in titling this choice sample of Space Age Pop standards.
- Bongos and Brass, Hugo Montenegro (Time)
- A smokin' album. Hugo's pyrotechnical take on "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is among my all-time favorite Space Age Pop cuts.
- Bongo Fever, Jack Costanzo (Liberty)
- Costanzo's bongo work first gained notice during his long stint with Stan Kenton's band, soloing in many of the Latin numbers Kenton loved. A live recording by Costanzo's combo at the Garden of Allah nightclub in Hollywood. (Hmmm ... a Muslim bar. Nah, probably not real Muslims, just cool Muslims).
- Bongo Madness, Don Ralke (MGM)
- A variation on the above diagnosis by Costanzo. It's not well-known now, but the first experimentation with Prozac was aimed at curing this illness. Sadly, a glance at any CD store today will show that it worked.
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