THE Book of Havana is here - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sat, Jul 26, 2008 9:34 AM On 2008-07-26 04:29, Tipsy McStagger wrote: ..apparently it was a hotbed for spys and espionage....behold!! It actually really was. This is best portrayed (and parodied) in Carol Reed's 1959 "Our Man in Havana", the other (than "I am Cuba") film that shows the late 50s Havana, including a scene at Sloppy Joe's Bar: Director Carol Reed and Alec Guiness on location in Havana The movie is not to be mixed up with the Jazz album by the same name, by Cal Tjader bongo player Mongo Santamaria, ..which was recorded in 1960, and besides his percussion included local Santeria chants, just like this album does, which I always loved for its primitivist, Tiki-esque Santeria cover:

On 2008-07-26 04:29, Tipsy McStagger wrote:
..apparently it was a hotbed for spys and espionage....behold!!

It actually really was. This is best portrayed (and parodied) in Carol Reed's 1959 "Our Man in Havana", the other (than "I am Cuba") film that shows the late 50s Havana, including a scene at Sloppy Joe's Bar:

Director Carol Reed and Alec Guiness on location in Havana

The movie is not to be mixed up with the Jazz album by the same name, by Cal Tjader bongo player Mongo Santamaria,

..which was recorded in 1960, and besides his percussion included local Santeria chants, just like this album does, which I always loved for its primitivist, Tiki-esque Santeria cover:

Post #396680 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Jul 26, 2008 9:34 AM