The album's eponymous track, Afro Blue, is a bravado rendition of the Mongo Santamaria classic, featuring the fire and swing that Mabern and his band were known for joined by acclaimed vocalist ...

Mongo Santamaria, a Cuban conga player and percussionist who arrived in New York at the beginning of the jazz-Latin fusion and was arguably the most popular Latin musician of the 1960s, died Feb. 1 He ...