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Directly from the original 1966 Impulse Records 45: Clark Terry and Chico O’Farrill “Spanish Rice” (Impulse, 1966)

I lucked into “Spanish Rice” a few years back at San Francisco’s fabulous Rooky Ricardo’s Records and its been spinning ever since! This not-so odd coupling of legendary Duke Ellington jazz trumpeter/flügelhornist Clark Terry and Cuban band leader/composer Chico O’Farrill finds the pair hungry and discussing where they should eat. Terry’s suggestion that they hike uptown to Fat Mama’s Soul Food is shot down as O’Farrill makes the case for Spanish rice – laying out the recipe in detail. The afro-Cuban jazz flavor promised by stirring Terry and O’Farrill into the melting pot is here but the discotheque era lightness, economy, and tight beat is more for the dance floor and less for jazz fans. “Spanish Rice” self-consciously employs food, music, and culture to illustrate the harmonic flavor you can get when you bring different cultures together. Plus a pinch of relaxed joking over some serious voodoo groove. Are you hungry yet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Terry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_O%27Farrill