• 1. Mambo Jambo – The Brute Force Steel Band
      • 2. Mambo No. 5 – The Brute Force Steel Band
      • 3. Alec Besta – The Brute Force Steel Band
      • 4. Del Magreto Del Bay – The Brute Force Steel Band
      • 5. Hold 'Em Joe – The Brute Force Steel Band
      • 6. Jingle Bells – The Brute Force Steel Band
      • 7. Brown Skinned Gal – The Brute Force Steel Band
      • 8. Under the Double Eagle – The Brute Force Steel Band
      • 9. Cantata – The Hell's Gate Steel Band
      • 10. Meringue No. 1 – The Big Shell Steel Band
      • 11. Meringue No. 2 – The Big Shell Steel Band
      • 12. Meringue No. 3 – The Big Shell Steel Band
      • 13. Leeward Island Mambo – The Big Shell Steel Band
      • 14. La Paloma (bolero) – The Big Shell Steel Band
      • 15. Saturday Night – The Big Shell Steel Band

      For this Cook recording, the Brute Force Steel Band of Antigua performs mambos, rumbas, sambas, calypsos and meringues plus a march and a bolero. A Trinidadian / Tobagan innovation that came out of WWII, the steel pan has enjoyed enormous popularity as a defining "musical sound of the Caribbean."

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