Mongo Explodes

Mongo Santamaria

Riverside

Recorded in 1964. Ray Lucas plays on this album.

Tracks

• Skins
• Fatback
• Hammer Head
• Dot, Dot, Dot
• Corn Bread Guajira
• Dirty Willie
• Sweet 'Tater Pie
• Bembe Blue
• Dulce Amor
• Tacos
• Para-Ti

• Nat Adderley - cornet
• Marty Sheller - trumpet, percussion
• Hubert Laws - piccolo, flute, tenor saxophone
• Bobby Capers - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Rodgers Grant - piano
• Victor Venegas - bass
• Jimmy Cobb - drums
• Ray Lucas - drums
• Mongo Santamaria - conga, bongo
• Carmelo Garcia - timbale
• Chihuahua Martinez - percussion
• Wito Kortwright - guino

The music on this LP was subsequently released on a double LP and a 2-on-1 CD;

• Skins, Mongo Santamaria, 1976
• Mongo Explodes / Watermelon Man, Mongo Santamaria, 1995