November 3 - Show #32

Theme song: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Who’s got the bread? – Mongo Santamaría – Olé Ola – Concord Picante

A night in Tunisia – Hilton Ruiz – Live at Birdland – Candid

Mira Flores – Eddie Palmieri – Listen here! – Concord Music

Take five – Tito Puente – Mambo Diablo – Concord Picante

A deeper shade of soul – Ray Barretto – Acid – Fania

Soul limbo – Cándido Camero – Thousand Finger Man – Blue Note

Mambo jambo – Xavier Cugat – The Original Latin Dance King – Sony Music

Rhapsodia del maravilloso – Sabu – Palo Congo – Blue Note

Choferito plena – Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos – The Prosthetic Cubans – Atlantic

Mellow mood – Wes Montgomery – Verve Silver Collection – Verve

Comes love – Darden Purcell – Easy living – Armored Records

My romance – Pilar de la Hoz – Jazz con Sabor Peruano – Jaguar Music Records

Chega de saudade (No more blues) – Carmen Lamarque – Live in Lima – Self-produced: carmenlamarque.com

Who Needs Forever? – Thievery Corporation Remix-Astrud Gilberto – Sinners Lounge: The Latin Sessions – Comfort Sounds


Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul highlights, among the so many great tunes from tonight, an album devoted to the Cándido Camero percussion expertise, filled up with soul and crazy congas and bongos upbeat rhythms.


The legendary label Blue Note made possible for the no less legendary percussionist Cándido Camero to have a large ensemble to back up the evolutions of Cándido on congas and bongos in this 1969 album “Thousand Finger man”. A renowned and ubiquitous percussionist in many of the Latin albums produced around the Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban, or soul scene in the States during the second half of the XXth century, here explores the upbeat funky Latin soul sound paths. Backed up with a heavy and soulful horn section and a playful Frank Anderson at the organ, a la Jimmy Smith, the album is a fully very enjoyable instrumental, that has lied far from the expectations and favor of more Cándido purists. Including a great rendition to 'Soul limbo', it stands a good sample of upbeat Latin soul.