Superb ensemble playing by the saxophones, bracketed by Bernie Privin’s and Bobby Burnet’s respective preparatory and closing trumpet remarks, paves the way for “Cuban Boogie Woogie”. (from Time-Life series Big Bands: Charlie Barnet TCD-0011)
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The uptown folks are quite aware
Of something in the Harlem air
A rhythm with a kind of beat
They’ve never heard from Cuban Pete
There came to Harlem’s door one day
A Cuban band with something new to say
When they began to play
They played the Cuban Boogie Woogie
Their music held a new delight
Because they had the rhumba rhythm right
Just like Havana
Still it was a Cuban Boogie Woogie
It began…
Whеn they heard a band from Dixieland
Evеry man…
Wanted to incorporate the (AB, Straight AB)? - (8-beat?)
So now they have it figured fine
And what they play is really on the line
It’s all combined
And it comes out the Cuban Boogie Woogie
-(Instrumental Break, Sax Solo to end)-
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Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra released Cuban Boogie Woogie on Mon Oct 09 1939.