Track Listing

1. Trinidad Paseo
2. Manuelito
3. Hold Him Joe - Sam Manning's Orchestra
4. Trinidad Carnival Songs
5. Bajan Girl - Lionel Belasco
6. Amazon - Lionel Belasco
7. Mongoose Hop - Lionel Belasco
8. Nancy
9. Bungo - Sam Manning
10. Talking to Myself - Sam Manning's Orchestra
11. I'm Going Your Way - Sam Manning's Orchestra
12. Belle Femme
13. Recuerdos del Pasado
14. Don't Touch Me
15. Marguerite
16. Why Me Craf Vex With Me
17. Under the British Commander
18. Lopez Contreras - Codallo's Top Hatters
19. Happy Man
20. Memories of Trinidad
21. Rumba Dance - Lion
22. Suzi-Qu - Lion,
23. Jitterbug - King Radio
24. Charming Trinidad - Lion,
25. Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #398912 in Music
• Released on: 1994-06-14
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Last Days of the Spanish Waltz
These are actually a large range of colonial musical hybrid forms from Trinidad with the hypnotic, African stick fight rhythms surgically removed as to not spook the society dames and bow tied gents who went to the dances in old time Port of Spain. Listening to these tunes gives you that very pre-war, stride piano, jazz age, lets put a good show on for the yankees feeling. Yet, even with that wiff of cultural repression, this is an indispensible recording for anyone who can't bear to leave the missing links in Caribbean music un-collected. It is positively riveting, in a rubber necking sort of way, to hear accomplished Calypsonians doing everything from Spanish Waltzes, called paseos or pasillos locally, to Jack Teagarden and Bix Beiderbeck type ditties. Buy it just to gawk at the cross-cultural spectacle.