Eddie Palmieri & Cal Tjader - Mi Montuno

This my theme and Variations video for E.P. & C.T. Rate your leisure. From the album “Bamboleate“..Mi beautiful ballad with soul and west coast cool meets Hot NYC makes this the coolest ever. In about 1965, Cal Tjader showed up in New York where he saw Eddie Palmieri and his Conjunto La Perfecta performing at the Cheetah club. Cal proposed to Eddie that they record together: “Give me your band, the whole shit.“ A deal was struck between Morris Levy of Tico Records (Eddie’s label) and Creed Taylor of MGM/Verve (Cal’s) that they do an exchange of artists. The sublime results were El Sonido Nuevo / The New Soul Sound (Verve, 1966) and Bamboleate (Tico, 1967), the second regarded by many as among Tjader’s best, La Perfecta lending a harder edge to his usual work. “The key was Bobby Rodríguez, the greatest Latin bass player we ever had,“ said Eddie in 1999. “The band was at its peak. “ Bobby solos