Tito Puente – Dance Mania

This 1958 album is the definitive document of the mambo craze that filled New York's Palladium Ballroom. Tito Puente's timbales drive a wall of brass, congas and call-and-response vocals that refuses to let you sit still. El Cumbanchero and Ran Kan Kan crackle with precision. Choose it to hear how powerful Afro-Cuban big-band dance music sounded at its peak.