September 29 - Show #27

Theme song: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Solid – Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet – ¡Bien Bien! – Patois Records

¡Bien bien! – Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet – ¡Bien Bien! – Patois Records

Home cooking – Marlon Simon and the Nagual Spirits – In Case You Missed It – Jazzheads

Something grand – Hilton Ruiz – Live at Birdland – Candid

El negro, part 2 – Los Hombres Calientes – Vol.3 New Congo Square – Basin Street Records

Just kidding – Michel Camilo – One More Once – Columbia

Midnight sun – Ray Mantilla – Good Vibrations – Savant Records

Soul burst – Cal Tjader – Talkin’ Verve-Roots of Acid Jazz – Verve

Soul sauce – Cal Tjader – Talkin’ Verve-Roots of Acid Jazz – Verve

Hip hug her – Chico O’Farrill – Talkin’ Verve-Mambomania – Verve

Papa Willie – Mongo Santamaría – Instant Party – Concord Records

Sabre dance – Lalo Schifrin – Talkin’ Verve-Mambomania – Verve

Love and passion – Sarah Vaughan and Milton Nascimento – Brazilian Romance – CBS

Gostoso veneno – Carmen Lamarque – Live in Lima – Self-produced: carmenlamarque.com

P’ra que dinheiro? – Martinho da Vila – Compilation The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhthms Vol. 5 - Rare Groove Recordings

Viver de amour – Nair de Candia – Café Do Brazil-A Pure Blend of Cool Brazilian Music – Metro/Union Square Music

Sahara – Gerardo Núñez – Calima – Alula Records

Jarabi – Ketama-Toumani Diabate-Danny Thompson – Songhai – Hannibal Records

No pido mucho – Veneno – Veneno – CBS/Sony



Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul opened today with a new release that has had quite an echo in the specialized jazz publications. Here you may find a review of the latest 2009 album by Wayne Wallace.


¡Bien Bien! is the title given to the last work by Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet, released by Patois Records. A natural from San Francisco, the long-life trombonist Wayne Wallace puts together again his Latin Jazz Quintet and brings in this 2009 a nine track album plenty of good contemporary Latin jazz. Included in the quintet, you may find Murray Low at the piano, Michael Spiro at the percussion, David Belove at the bass, and Paul van Wageningen at trap drums. In other words, some of the regulars in studio for current great Latin jazz big names as Pete Escovedo, Chico O'Farrill or Eddie Palmieri. You also may find themes going from Wallace´s compositions to readings on Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins or John Coltrane themes. To sum up, an album full of good melodies and rhythms opening with a cheerful and chilling tune entitled as the album, setting the mood for the rest of the album. Great instrument dialogues in Going up!, or Building bridges, in turns with steady mellow rhythms as in Solid. A very balanced album with great instrumentalists working together wonderfully under the supervision and production of Wayne Wallace himself.