Mike Ragogna: Thank God It's Thursday: Miles Davis, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Charles Mingus, Tito Puente and Babatunde Olatunji

Miles Davis Kind Of Blue / Legacy Edition Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain / Legacy Edition The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out / Legacy Edition Charles Minugus Mingus Ah Um / Legacy Edition Tito Puente Dance Mania / Legacy Edition Babatunde Olatunji Drums Of Passion / Legacy Edition Back when gas was twenty-five cents, Hawaii and Alaska became states, and Fidel Castro came to power, would-be classic records such as Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue and Sketches Of Spain , Dave Brubeck's Time Out , and Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Um hit the marketplace as jazz's reinvention experienced some of its greatest popularity in the U.S. as well as internationally. As Americans became globetrotters (remember Frank Sinartra's Come Fly With Me album cover?), foreign musics simultaneously began infiltrating the U.S.--like the latin dance of Tito Puente or the "exotic" sounds of Nigerian-born Babatunde Olatunji and his Drums Of Passion . In fact, Puente's album, Dance Mania , and its ... (link)