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Artist:	MARRERO & THE GROUP, RICARDO
Title:	A Taste
Label:	JAZZMAN RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	JMAN 027CD

The third in Jazzman's Holy Grail series of releases, Ricardo Marrero & The Group's A Taste originally released in 1976, is a mouth-watering taste of super Latin soul! With the ingredients ranging from spicy-hot funk to cool, refreshing salsa, it's a tropical breeze of an album that very nearly never happened, now reissued in its entirety with bonus tracks. The story of this album begins in New York during the mid-'70s. It's a story of stolen master tapes, shady deals and records deliberately made NOT to be sold. It's the story of the musical obsession of one man who has devoted his life to music and how he was sold down the river by unscrupulous record industry moguls. It's also the story of one of the rarest, most in-demand and expensive records the world has ever known, with only a handful of copies of this super LP ever being found. Demand for the solid music within has led to a bidding frenzy whenever a copy has surfaced -- the latest one on eBay fetched Ł2855 -- that's an amazing $4,000! Records don't get much more collectable than that. Why so rare? Jazzman spoke to Ricardo himself to find out, and his remarkable story is revealed in the liners for the first time ever. He speaks about the recording of the album and his disappointment at the stolen tapes, his ill-fated association with boxing legend Don King, and the making of the legendary Latin funk anthem "Babalonia," which underwent no less than 4 pressings. Seriously accomplished grooves featuring funky, space-shot synths, driving percussion, swinging brass, flute jams, smooth female vocals, plenty of wah, and so much more. This reissue also includes a 4-page color booklet with in-depth liner notes from original interviews, label scans, rare photographs, and two alternate takes of songs previously only obtainable on 7" vinyl.

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