Puente's 100th album is a celebration of that fact, with a procession of vocalists, most of whom -- like
Celia Cruz -- were professionally associated with him at one time or another. That doesn't make for a very tight concept, but recordings by musicians of his generation didn't have concepts, they had music. So does this one, including a minor riot with
Celia Cruz riding a big, burly mambo arrangement by a band full of just everybody, and a wonderful "El Bribon del Aguacero" with Chocolate Armenteros on trumpet. ~ John Storm Roberts