Of the other three albums in "Quatro, " "Cuban Carnival" (1956) was Puente's first album for a major mainstream label and broke new ground in showing that Cubandance music could sustain audience attention, whether moving or sitting for a full 36 minutes in fact, any longer than that would test a dancer's endurance.
The Congolese sound, which started as an imitation of popular Cuban records, eventually trumped all competitors, crashing through language and culture barriers with dance drive and melodious guitar arranging.