| Cuban Fire! | ||||
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| Released | Cuban Fire! -1956 original LP -1991 re-issue CD | |||
| Recorded | May 22–24, 1956 in New York City (original LP) September 19–21, 1960 in Los Angeles (extra re-issued material on CD) | |||
| Genre | Jazz, big band, Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban music | |||
| Length | 54:00 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Lee Gillette (LP) Ted Daryll (CD reissue) | |||
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Cuban Fire! is an album by Stan Kenton and his orchestra released in 1956 by Capitol Records. This was Stan Kenton's big band's first full-length recording of Afro-Cuban-styled music. The LP charted for four weeks in Billboard starting on September 15, 1956, peaking at #17.[1] The concept of the original 1956 recording centers on the Cuban Fire! suite Kenton had commissioned from composer Johnny Richards. The 1991 CD re-issue is augmented with one extra track from the 1956 sessions and five cuts recorded four years later by the first of Kenton's mellophonium orchestras.
- ^ Billboard Top 100 LPs, pp. 417