2 LPs ON 1 CD
 

SAFARI with SABU, is one of the most celebrated albums recorded by Louis "Sabu" Martínez, one of the greatest conga and bongo drummers of the modern jazz era. There is a persuasive quality about the music recorded herein that creates an unusual rapport between it and the listener.

The album is a sparkling of three cultures: the African, as represented by the percussive instrumentation, the Latin-American via the female voices, and American jazz through the reeds and horns. In old jungles strange ache-hungry birds watch from trees that wilt and hang. Small loin-clothed men step brittlely through overgrown verdure. Natural boleros sound in the teeth of giant crocodiles crunching the bones of careless waterfowl, while in the grass banks, the lice violate in aimless joy the matted fur of some dead, cold, warm-blooded species.

SABU... has heard all this and much more. The rhythmic cadences of nature's boiler room are here, the aural history of the sex life of a cosmic corn popper, the wail and chime and gong sound of the eternal SORCERY.

Personnel on 'Safari' (1-5):

Louis 'Sabu' Martínez (bongos, timpani and conductor)
Ray Barretto, Ray Romero, Evelio Quintero (conga)
Steve Berrios (timbales)
Jack Hitchcock (vib, tb)
Gene Allen (oboe, ts)
Cecil Payne (bs) and Oscar Pettiford (b).
Recorded in New York City, June 6 & 13, 1957.

Personnel on 'Sorcery!' (610):

Louis 'Sabu' Martínez (bongos and conga),
featuring Ray Romero, and Evelio Quintero (conga).
Recorded in New York City, 1958.

Tracks (1-5) from the LP Safari With Sabu (VIK LX-1122).
Tracks (6-10) taken from the LP Sorcery! (Columbia WL 101)

Tracks:

01. Jeanett
02. Dawn
03. Ubas
04. Nadenga
05. Safari
06. Aurora Borealis
07. Moon Black
08. Sorcery
09. Bonco
10. Milk Weed

Total time: 79:58 min