15. Tito Punete - Dance Mania Vol.1 [1958]

15. Tito Punete - Dance Mania Vol.1 [1958]

Only another 5 years and 20 albums to go until I get the the beginning of the British Invasion.

While I'm doing this blog I'm finding myself listening to more Afro/Cuban jazz than at any point previously in my entire life, and there's probably a good reason for that other than not being from the generation or the place that spawned this stuff, but that's not to say it isn't enjoyable.

The biggest problem for me anyway is all of this stuff sounds the same. Granted there are differences in the songs on offer here, there are some with vocals, some without and ... well that's about it really.
It's all very jolly & bouncy like you'd expect with mambos & cha chas in abundance. It's just that I'm hearing this stuff long after it's day so I have seen this stuff parodied beyond belief to the point where I almost expect Morcambe & Wise to come out and do a comedy dance routine to this stuff.

The best thing about this kind of stuff is that before you've heard a note you know exactly the type of thing you're going to get so you can prepare yourself to listen to it, that however is also it's biggest downfall because after a while the songs kind of merge into one another and the whole things comes kind of predictable.

This is a fun album but then these kind of albums are, it's a bit like a kind of enforced fun. You would have fun listening to it, but why would you want to listen to it when you could listen to something much more contemporary and less dated ?
Everything about this album screams 1950s at you, at first it's novel but doesn't really hold your interest over time because there's nothing really substantial here.

Rating 1.5 / 5