BST 84357

Candido - Beautiful

Released - 1970

Recording and Session Information

A&R Studios, NYC, October 20, 1970
Bernie Glow, Pat Russo, trumpet; Alan Raph, trombone, bass trombone; Joe Grimm, soprano, baritone sax; Frank Anderson, piano, organ; David Spinozza, guitar; Jerry Jemmott, electric bass; Herbie Lovelle, drums; Candido, congas, bongos; Joe Cain, arranger.

6910 I'm On My Way
6911 New World In The Morning
6912 Tic Tac Toe
6913 Hey, Western Union Man

A&R Studios, NYC, October 27, 1970
Bernie Glow, Pat Russo, trumpet #1-3,5,6; Alan Raph, trombone, bass trombone #1-3,5,6; Joe Grimm, soprano, baritone sax, flute #1-3,5,6; Frank Anderson, piano, organ; David Spinozza, guitar; Richard Davis, electric bass; Herbie Lovelle, drums; Candido, congas, bongos; Joe Cain, arranger.

6914 I Shouldn't Believe
6915 Beautiful
6916 Money Man
6917 Serenade To A Savage
6954 Ghana Spice, Part 1
6955 Ghana Spice, Part 2

Track Listing

Side One
Title	Author	Recording Date
I'm on My Way	Richie Havens	October 20 1970
Tic Tac Toe	Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones	October 20 1970
Hey, Western Union Man	Jerry Butler, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff	October 20 1970
Serenade to a Savage	Joe Garland	October 27 1970
New World in the Morning	Roger Whittaker	October 20 1970
Side Two
Beautiful	Cain-Candido	October 27 1970
I Shouldn't Believe	Kelly Montgomery	October 27 1970
Money Man	Cain-Candido	October 27 1970
Ghana Spice, Pt. 1	Cain-Candido	October 27 1970
Ghana Spice, Pt. 2	Cain-Candido	October 27 1970

Liner Notes

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CD Reissue Liner Notes

CANDIDO CAMERO was born in Havana, Cuba in 1921 and became a celebrity on radio and at that city's extravagant Tropicana Club before coming to New York in 1952 where he established himself with Billy Taylor's quartet for two years. He appeared on big band projects led by Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton and Randy Weston, but made his name adding his buoyant Afro-Cuban rhythms to small groups led by Kenny Burrell, Bennie Green, Gene Ammons, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Kelly and others. He also worked with Latin greats like Tito Puente and Machito and was in demand in New York's studio session circles.

Although he had led groups for specific gigs and record dates, the band heard on this recording was a permanent working group for a couple of years. Their first album Thousand finger Man was issued on the Solid State label, which was soon to be folded into the Blue Note label operation. In fact, that album's single (covers of Rufus Thomas's "Jump Back" and Booker T. and the MGS' "Soul Limbo") was issued on Blue Note.

This band fuses the traditions of Afro-Cuban jazz bands with the tight execution of Latin bands and the funk grooves of R&B. Like the first album, this one contains contemporary covers of popular funk tunes of the day, but what gives this album lasting interest and values are "Serenade To A Savage" and the two-part "Ghana Spice." "Serenade" is the unlikely revival of a 1939 Artie Shaw hit that has been transformed into a groove tune that showcases Candido's amazing finger work backed just by the rhythm section. The infectious, haunting "Ghana Spice" is decidedly African in its melody and rhythm. Candido's congas, Herb Lovelle's drums and Richard Davis's bass line drive the rhythm over which Joe Grimm's flute states the melody. These tracks have become club and sampling favorites for their great beats and grooves.