One of arranger-composer Johnny Richards’s many masterpieces in the LP era was Cuban Fire!, a 12-inch album recorded by the Stan Kenton orchestra in 1956. Richards’s six Afro-Cuban pieces for the band form the movements of a suite, and the album today is widely considered a masterpiece.
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