They are easily the best-sounding sources of this music out there. While the two individual Afro-Latin Soul albums have been available on various labels in various formats for years, this two-fer (also re-released separately) was painstakingly remastered from pristine vinyl sources obtained from collectors. He offered to record the Ethiopian quintet and the rest is history. His outfit would play the Village Gate opening for Dave Pike's legendary sextet, and it was there he met Snapper, already a marginally well-known producer. While playing in the Big Apple and checking out jazz and the Nuyorican boogaloo scene, he formed his quintet with a host of Ethiopian, Latin, and African-American musicians - he was originally trying to showcase the African continent's connection to Latin music. He was already formulating the ideas for creating an "Ethio-Jazz" that he would perfect six years later on 1972's Mulatu of Ethiopia. Astatke would venture to New York City from Boston's Berklee College of Music on the weekends. Interestingly, they were recorded in New York, by Gil Snapper of Worthy Records.
1 & 2 from 1966, as recorded by his Ethiopian Quintet. Strut conclude their series of official reissues by Mulatu Astatke, the "Godfather of Ethio Jazz", with his early classics Afro-Latin Soul, Vols.
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