''Jam Session with Feeling'' is the second

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album recorded by Cuban bassist

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. Following the recording and release of ''

Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature ''Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature'' is the debut album by Cuban double bassist Cachao, released in 1957 by Panart. The album is composed of descargas, improvised jam sessions with Cuban themes. It was the fourth installment in Panart's ''Cuban Jam S ...

'', which received critical and commercial acclaim, Cachao assembled a similar roster of musicians to record ''Jam Session with Feeling'' in Havana in 1958. The album was meant to be released by Maype, but due to the

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of the time, it was not released until 1962, in the United States, once Maype had relocated there. The title of the album is a reference to '' filin'' (feeling), the 1940s movement in which forms such as the

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were used as a basis for descargas (improvised jam sessions).

Recording

The album focuses on improvised arrangements of Afro-Cuban

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: danzones,

s and

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. This is unlike ''Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature'', where the compositions were novel and not adscribable to any genre besides the unspecific "descarga". On ''Jam Session with Feeling'', many of the songs are decades-old such as Eusebio Delfín's bolero "¿Y tú qué has hecho?" (1922),

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's canción "

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" (1929),

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" (1930), and

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' son "A buscar camarón" (1943). Also included is "(Camina) Juan Pescao", one of Orestes López most famous danzones which was the title track to the Spanish reissue of Cachao's 1958 ''Con el ritmo de Cachao'', a straight-ahead danzón album also recorded in 1958. The album features Cachao's brother,

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on piano and

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on electric

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, both of whom had previously performed as guests on ''Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature''. The wind section is formed by trombonist Generoso "Tojo" Jiménez and trumpeters Armandito Armenteros (cousin of

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) and Alejandro "El Negro" Vivar. The album features both Ricardo Abreu (leader of Los Papines) and

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, the latter doubling on the drums (

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Release

Following the relocation of Maype to

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, the album was originally released as a 12" vinyl record in 1962 with the catalog number US-122. In 1992 it was released on cassette (USC-122) and CD (CD-122). ''Jam Session with Feeling'' was followed by ''Descarga'' (US-168), also recorded for Maype with a similar lineup.

Track listing

Personnel

– music direction, double bass *

– piano *Alejandro "El Negro" Vivar – trumpet *Armando Armenteros – trumpet * Generoso "Tojo" Jiménez – trombone *

– electric

*Ricardo "Papín" Abreu – tumbadora *

– tumbadora, drums *Rogelio "Yeyo" Iglesias – bongos *Gustavo Tamayo – güiro

References

{{Authority control 1962 albums Cachao albums Descarga albums Spanish-language albums