Hugo Heredia

If ever a record called be called a lost masterpiece then this record more than deserves that epithet. First released on an obscure French label in the 1970's it might have sunk further into obscurity and left no trace of it's passing but somehow a handful of copies turned up in various Jazz shops in London where it was snapped up by DJ Paul Murphy who was then playing to the embryonic jazz dance scene, based at the very first Jazz Room club: The Horseshoe in London's Tottenham Court Road, a decaying, seedy, sticky carpeted old West End ballroom that had seen better days.

This and a select few records in a similar vein were being played to an appreciative audience who demanded tough raw percussive rhythms overlaid with some furious jazzy soloing and whenever this record hit the turntable it left even the most demanding groover sated.

PERSONNEL:

• Hugo Heredia - (tenor, alto & soprano saxes, flute, percussion)
• Horace Parlan - (piano)
• Peter Frei - (acoustic bass)
• Ivanir Mandrake De Nascimento - (conga, percussion)
• Peter Schmidlin - (drums, percussion)

Ludwigsburg, October 9 & 10, 1976

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Mananita Pampera
• A2. El Beto
• A3. Have You Met Miss ?
• A4. El Beto II

• SIDE B
• B1. Tunita
• B2. Carmen Pequena
• B3. Al Bebbe Guia