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Originally Posted by maxwell93
Thank you very much Ando, I asked a dozen of people around me and none of them was able to identify this one.
Never heard about The Manhattan Transfer, despite the Grammies. By the way, I prefer the original version by Weather Report (which I heard of but never listened to) (now I did).
It is quite interesting to notice that on Heavy Weather, the album containing Birdland, there is a track, named Rumba Mama, which is a short live percussion performance made of Cuban traditional music (probably a rumba columbia or another rumba sub-genre, and it may be linked to Orishas too, since Eleguá is mentioned).
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Yeah, I should have mentioned the late songwriter,
Joe Zawinul, and the original Weather Report version but I'm partial to the vocal performance of Jon Hendricks' lyrics.
I don't really know
Heavy Weather (other than
Birdland). Listening to it now. Side B of the original vinyl begins with
Rumba Mama, a live performance which (by the sound of it) had some dance accompaniment.