I listened to this one a few years ago with the list I originally drew up from the "1001 albums" book.
This is an early combination of big band jazz with afro-Cuban flavours. At the time, I did not realise that Cannonball Adderley plays sax on the album.
I don't really have much to say about this one. I enjoyed it well enough, and musically it deserves descriptors like "exciting" and "electric". I love the percussion throughout the album; but at the same time it is one of those albums that sets up its sound and then mostly sticks to it. Inevitably it turns into something that you're more likely to treat as 'aural wallpaper' and half listen to it while you do something else.
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