Eddie Gomez

Cuban-influenced dance band leader Eddie Gomez hailed from Puerto Rico and was mixed up in United States through the ’50s. He’s one of the performers with this name in Latin music, most of whom are overshadowed from the mighty existence of bassist Eddie Gomez — today’s jazzman who, with an increase of than 300 recordings to his credit, offers normally dipped into Latin jazz aswell. But bassist Gomez was hardly an adolescent when the bandleader from the same name led Eddie Gomez & His Latin American Orchestra, the main documentation which is a set of LPs around the ultra-cheap Crown label, Cuban Mist and Caribbean Rendezvous. Elements like the shabby creation quality from the Crown catalog and the overall obscurity of the particular Eddie Gomez possess managed to draw the wool on the Latin jazz public’s ears with regards to this bandleader’s characteristics like a composer and arranger. Gomez songs on up to date exotica and lounge music compilations, like the happily titled THE BEST Bachelor’s Pad Arranged, shed a brand new light upon this music, because it holds up quite nicely alongside the solid competition of very much better-known performers, including Xavier Cugat, Tito Puente, and Walter Wanderley. Gomez and Ray Gilbert — the second option also among Antonio Carlos Jobim’s collaborators — co-wrote a very popular ’50s novelty track known in British as “I Observe, I Observe” and internationally numerous variants, including “Ah Si, Ah Si.”