Chocolate’s First Recording
While researching Beyond Salsa Bass, Vol. 2, I was pointed to this amazing 1949 recording of René Álvarez with Chocolate Armenteros on trumpet. Andy González calls this the perfect example of how to play Latin trumpet, and Arsenio apparently agreed with him because when he heard Chocolate, he told his brother that he had to have that trumpet player. Emiliano Echeverría found the track in his 78 RPM collection and Orlando Fiol pitch-corrected and remastered it. Enjoy:
René Álvarez: Para la niña y la señora (trumpet solos: Chocolate Armenteros)
