Johnny Conga’s 3rd CD “Oye” is a nice collection of Latin Jazz songs with 2 rumbas added for variety.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe arrangements play an important role in making the album enjoyable. Johnny Conga puts into play his 48 years of experience in the music business to make the arrangements a nice mix of mostly progressive Latin Jazz songs.<\/p>\n
The songs have a good variety of jazz tempos, keeping the listener engaged through the songs and through the album with mixed faster and slower Latin Jazz tunes.<\/p>\n
Johnny Conga adds in 2 street-type rumbas; \u201cMullaly Park-Bronx Rumba\u201d, which comes in as the #4 song of the 10-song recording, and it\u2019s almost an interlude at under 3 minutes duration, and \u201cRumba y Guarapachangeo\u201d at the #8 spot.<\/p>\n
My favorite songs are Johnny Conga\u2019s \u201cChablue\u201d, and Wayne Shorter\u2019s \u201cFootprints\u201d. Both are great songs that use the band’s talents with a good mix of rhythms during the songs.<\/p>\n
My Recommendation of \u201cOye\u201d<\/h3>\n
For me \u201cOye\u201d is a very good Latin Jazz album. The music is just really good; JC\u2019s percussion does not dominate the album, and the songs and arrangements are really good. I enjoy listening to \u201cOye\u201d much more than \u201cBreaking Skin\u201d, and \u201cBreaking Skin\u201d is not a bad album.<\/p>\n
The recording, mastered by Julio Jauregui, and mixed by Julio and Johnny, is of very good quality.<\/p>\n
\u201cOye is a very enjoyable album to listen to for any Jazz fan, and especially for Latin Jazz fans. I can say that the 3 years that it took JC to put \u201cOye\u201d together were worth the effort. You can\u2019t go wrong with this album.<\/p>\n
Video Review of Johnny Conga’s “Oye”<\/h3>\n
Here’s my video of the review of the Johnny Conga album “Oye”.<\/p>\n