Trío Maravilla y Manuel Jiménez.
A programme like this should have a name, shouldn’t it? So ‘Trío Maravilla y Manuel Jiménez’. But actually we would like to spotlight José Juan García or Chiquitín García. He started as singer and guitar player (or with maracas) with the famous Cuarteto Mayarí of composer and trumpet player Plácido Acevedo Sosa in 1938. We met him in several Puerto Rican ensembles including bands under his own name and finally he became musical director of the same Cuarteto Mayarí in the seventies. In 1940 he was part of the established sublime Trío Maravilla. In New York in cafés and small restaurants they reaped enormous success. Next with the also very famous Manuel Jiménez y Su Cuarteto from the Jiménez family. Manuel Jiménez also started at Plácido Acevedo in 1938. In this programme you will only hear extracts of the repertoire of these 2 ensembles and we will keep his merengue specialities for granted.
This is what you will hear:
01 La gayofona, guaracha
02 Mi cafetal, porro
03 Nunca es tarde, bolero
04 Yim yere, guaracha
05 Qué maravilla, jaleo-merengue
06 No hay mal que dure cien años
07 Dolor de muelas, guaracha
08 Nuestra tradición
09 Por presentao
10 El asunto, porro (Esther Forrero)
11 Fuímonos (Jiménez)
12 Que le den pau pau (Jiménez)
13 Temeridad, bolero (Jiménez)
14 No empujen, charanga (Jiménez)
15 Culpable, inocente (Jiménez)
16 Cuando tu decidas (Jiménez)
17 En bicicleta (Jiménez)
18 La pulguita, plena-porro (Jiménez)
19 Preocupación (Jiménez)
20 Tócale la bocina, plena-porro (Jiménez)
The music is from the following LPs:
Trío Maravilla – Chago/Chiquitín/Ray LP: Seeco SLP 24
Trío Maravilla, LP: Seeco V.3425
Trío Maravilla – Qué Maravilla!, 1954 LP:Tropical TRLP 5065
Trío Maravilla – Chago/Chiquitín/Ray 1952, LP: Seeco(Vogue)EPL.7.155
Trío Maravilla – Chago/Chiquitín/Ray, 1950, LP: Seeco (Vogue) EPL.7.155
Trío Maravilla, Eshter Forrero, vocal, 1952, LP: Exito 20 359
Exitos de Manuel Jiménez, 1958, LP: Tropical TRLP 5043
Jiménez Manuel – Siempre Alegre, 1960, LP: Ansonia ALP 1254
