Baja Marimba Band Rides Again

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Notes:

Almost parallel in thought to Alpert's Volume 2, this Baja album has a very Mexican feel to it--check out "Guacamole", the swinging "Juarez" (one of my all-time favorite Baja jams), and the shuffling "Brasilia". Excellent arrangements assist Bacharach's "Walk On By" and Mancini's "Dear Heart", and a lighthearted moment is on hand with "The Woody Woodpecker Song" and "Goin' Out The Side Door". This album was released with two different covers. The front of the jacket is the same, but the newer pressings had a more up-to-date group photo displayed on the back. (This group was not assembled at the time--it shows the same basic lineup as the Heads Up! album, but as with the first Baja album, this band was comprised mainly of studio musicians.) The front cover, incidentally, obviously shows a few of the "phony" Mexicans of the previous album cover (is that Alpert taking siesta on the sideboard of the bus?), and begins the running gag of the one band member who never quite makes it to the picture, due to "nature calling"!

Details:

Produced by Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss

Arranged by Herb Alpert & Julius Wechter

Engineer: Larry Levine

A&M Records SP-4109

Released 1965

Source: http://www.juliuswechter.com/

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