BOX SET TRACES PUENTE'S CAREER.Byline: Dallas Morning News Latin jazz legend Tito Puente, who is celebrating 50 years in the music business, will have his legacy immortalized in a three-CD box set to be released by New York's RMM RMM Mali (international vehicle registration) RMM Remote Management Module (SMC) RMM Relative Molecular Mass RMM Removable Media Manager RMM Read My Mind RMM Rio Music Manager Records on Tuesday. The anniversary compilation, titled ``50 Years of Swing,'' is the Latin genre's first-ever box set. The career retrospective traces Puente's influential music, from his late-'40s be-bop and Afro-Cuban melange mé·lange also me·lange n. A mixture: "[a] building crowned with a mélange of antennae and satellite dishes" Howard Kaplan. to mambo A popular open source content management system (CMS) that is used to create and manage Web sites. Written in PHP and using the MySQL database, Mambo was released in 2001 by Peter Lamont of Miro Construct Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Australia. hits and salsa excursions. The 50 tracks span Puente's 108 albums on nearly a dozen labels, including duets with such salsa and jazz notables as Celia Cruz, India, Lionel Hampton, James Moody and the late Cal Tjader. Of course, Puente's original version of ``Oye Como Va,'' which Santana turned into a pop hit in 1971, will be on the box. ``I never thought I had done so much material in so many years,'' says Puente from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . ``I have had to go into storage and dig some of that music out. I've run into some things I never knew I had.'' According to Debra Mercado, publicity director for RMM Records, Puente's box set will get a ``phenomenal push.'' RMM is saturating all Latin music meccas - Texas, New York Texas is a hamlet in Oswego County, New York, USA, near the southeastern corner of Lake Ontario. It is officially part of the town of Mexico. Geography Texas lies on Little Salmon Creek, about one-half mile above the mouth of that stream on Lake Ontario, on an east-west , Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles - with heavy promotion, including a five-minute video documenting Puente's career. |
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