Finally scored this Les Baxter album we’d been looking for, for a really long time! Que Mango! It’s lush, sophisticated, yet playful and romantic, all in one! It’s hard to pick just one track. They’re all different, yet mesh so perfectly together as an album. Play it and imagine yourself in a villa somewhere in Latin America, sipping a fine brandy or cognac, perhaps a glass of red wine or champagne, if that’s more your thing, and gazing out the window, dreaming of that special someone, planning a future rendezvous on a yacht or perhaps running wild with abandon with them through a field of flowers, and feeling all is right with the world, because when you play Les Baxter’s music, it is.
