Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Tell It 2. Letter, The 3. Listen Here 4. Sometimes Bread 5. Geechee Girl 6. Hippo Walk 7. Featherbed Lane 8. Saoco 9. Afro Walk 10. Congo Blue 11. Ebora - (yeza) 12. En la Habana - (guaguanco) 13. Conga, Bata Y Chequere / Me Buelle La Muela - (lucumi & mambo, columbia) 14. Eco (bembe) / Abacua (abacua) 15. Pan de Maiz - (conga) 16. Para Ti 17. Sofrito 18. Little Angel 19. Virtue 20. Jose Outside 21. Forked Tongue
| | Details | | Playing time: | 73 min. | | Contributing artists: | Bernard Purdie, Cissy Houston, Eric Gale, John Faddis, Lew Soloff, Stanley Turrentine | | Distributor: | Gotham Distributing Corp. | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | 2 LP's on 1 CD: MONGO'S WAY (1971)/UP FROM THE ROOTS (1972). MONGO'S WAY: Personnel: Mongo Santamaria (congas); Marty Sheller (conductor, percussion); Cissy Houston, Sylvia Shemwell, Judy Clay, Myrna Smith (vocals); Grant Reed, Stanley Turrentine (tenor saxophone); Ray Maldonado (trumpet, percussion); Lew Soloff (trumpet); Roger Glenn (flute, vibraphone); Neal Creque (acoustic & electric pianos); Eric Gale (guitar); Eddie "Gua-Gua" Rivera (electric bass); Chuck Rainey, Israel "Cachao" Lopez (bass); Bernard Purdie, Don Alias (drums); Armando Peraza (bongos, congas); Julito Collazo (chekere); Angel Allende (percussion). Originally released on Atlantic (1581). UP FROM THE ROOTS: Personnel: Mongo Santamaria (congas); Julito Collazo (vocals, congas, bata drum, chekere, tambourine); Papaito Munoz (vocals, congas); Carter Jefferson (soprano & tenor saxophones); Bill Saxon (alto & baritone saxophones); Ray Maldonado, Lew Soloff, John Faddis (trumpet); Felix Watkins (flute); Eddy Martinez (acoustic & electric pianos); Eddie "Gua Gua" Rivera (bass); Steve Berrios (drums, timbales); Jimmy Johnson (drums); Pablo Rosario (bongos, bell); Marcellino Guerra, Welfo, Cait (background vocals). Originally released on Atlantic (1621).
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