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Francis Bay

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Album Review

With probably the same personnel as the Columbia/Epic albums, the Bay band on Francis Bay's Latin Beat offers more of the same good stuff. Leading off each side, the treatments of "Mambo Jambo" and "Caravan" are hard-driving conga workouts with horns. Cheesy wah-wah trumpet in the latter adds something different to the old warhorse tune. The vocals on "Un Poquito de Tu Amor" are ambitious, including even the wordless "pow pows" associated with samba and Esquivel in the 1960s. The next two numbers show that Bay can play down-tempo too, capturing at least an exotic mood, if not exactly an authentic flavor. What sets Bay apart is his strength, however. Few Europeans ever interpreted Latin as well, at least not in a big band.

Biography

Genre: French Pop

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Bandleader Francis Bay was born Frans Bayetz in Rijkevorsel, Belgium in 1914; according to the Space Age Pop Page (home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/index.htm), he began playing the clarinet at age seven, and within a few years was already gigging with local orchestras. After earning first prize honors in 1930 for clarinet performance at the Conservatoire of Malines, Bay added saxophone and trombone to his arsenal, and in the latter half of the decade played in swing bands behind leaders like Paul...
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