November 24 - Show #35

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Mambo Inn – Mario Bauzá, Paquito D’Rivera & Jorge Dalto – Afro-Cuban Jazz – Yemayá Records

Afro mood – Latin Percussion Jazz Ensemble – Just Like Magic – Latin Percussion Inc.

Martínez blues – Latin Percussion Jazz Ensemble – Just Like Magic – Latin Percussion Inc.

Qué sera, Sweetie – Willis Jackson – Boss Shoutin’ – Prestige

Cabato – Wild Bill Davis – From Latin to Jazz Dance Vol 5 – Rare Groove Recordings

Soul sauce – Cal Tjader – From Latin to Jazz Dance Vol 5 – Rare Groove Recordings

New York Soul – Ray Barretto – Latin Soul Man – Fania

Hit the bongo – Tito Puente – Can You Dig It? Thrilling Rare Grooves from Jazz to Soul’n’Brazil to Boogaloo – Brown Sugar Records

Batman’s boogaloo – Bobby Valentín – The Rough Guide to Boogaloo-Latin Dance with NY Attitude – World Music Network/Rough Guide

I like it like that – Cosa Nostra – Cosa Nostra – RAFF/World Psychedelia Ltd.

The meditation – The TNT Band – Playtime-Latin Soul Boogaloo – Hi&Fly Records

Tin Marin – Ricardo Ray & Bobby Cruz – Playtime-Latin Soul Boogaloo – Hi&Fly Records

Menina feia – Herbie Mann & Sergio Mendes Bossa Nova Rio Group – Do The Bossa Nova – Atlantic

Mas que nada – Oscar Peterson – Soul Español – Verve

Summer samba – Dizzy Gillespie – Melody Lingers On – Verve

Aula de matemática – Oscar Castro-Neves & Paul Winter – Brazilian Days – Earth Music

Manuel, o audaz – Toninho Horta – As The World Turns – World Pacific Records

Samba diferente – Sexteto Electrónico Moderno – Sounds from the Elegant World – Vampisoul

Muere pequeña bestia – Sexteto Electrónico Moderno – Sounds from the Elegant World – Vampisoul

Todo el mundo me persigue – Jaime Delgado Aparicio – El Embajador y Yo Original Movie Soundtrack –Vampisoul

Sexy surf – Jaime Delgado Aparicio – El Embajador y Yo Original Movie Soundtrack – Vampisoul

A starlett for you – Andre Luterau – The Mood Mosaic 7 “the new shapes of sound” – Partners in crime

Dedicated to love – Manfred Hübler & Siegfrid Schwab – Vampyros Lesbos Original Movie Soundtrack – Crippled Dick Hot Wax!


Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul has paid close attention to the work released in 1979 under the name “Just like magic”, where great artists from the Latin jazz scene put together a must in Afro-Cuban tradition.




The year is 1979 and the label Latin Percussion Inc. releases “Just Like Magic”. The power of three great percussionists of the scene, Tito Puente, Carlos ´Patato´ Valdés, and Johny Rodríguez Jr., accompanied by Steve Berrios on drums, Eddie Martínez at the piano, René López on trumpet, and Sal Cuevas on bass. Thirty nine minutes of Afro-Cuban musical tradition at its best. This is an album where percussion virtuosity leads the whole picture, in a rich dialogue with piano or vibes and marimba at times. Opening track “The opener”, as the names goes, sets the tone for the steady rhytmical pace coming along. Especially good take on fourth track, “Afro mood”, which is indeed a great piano and percussion Latin jazz piece. The same could said for “Bernie´s tune”. “Baila guajira” has vocals by Nancy O'Neill and Jeanette Rodríguez, who also takes part in a more experimental approach as in the tune “Latin funk”. The album ends with the theme “Tito & Patato”, which is both congaleros back to back on raw drumming the timbales and congas for a remarkable coda to an album delivering energy all over the place.