December 22 - Show #39 - Christmas Special

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Feliz Navidad – Will King – Christmas Spanish Guitar – Compass Productions

Deck The Halls (Cuba) – Cuba L. A. – Christmas Around the World – Putumayo

Venid Fieles Todos (Cuba) – Liuba Maria Hevia – Christmas Around the World – Putumayo

Paz En La Tierra (Joy To The World) (Cuba) – Ramon F. Veloz Christmas Around the World – Putumayo

Aguinaldo Jíbaro (Puerto Rico) – Pepe Castillo – Christmas Around the World – Putumayo

Diciembre – Los Embajadores Vallenatos – A Putumayo World Christmas – Putumayo

White Christmas (France) – Los Reyes – Christmas Around the World – Putumayo

Joy to the world – Will King – Christmas Spanish Guitar – Compass Productions

Boogaloo Santa Claus – J. D. McDonald – In The Christmas Groove – Strut Records

Nadal de Luintra – Berroguetto – A Putumayo World Christmas – Putumayo

Noite Para Festejar – Ivan Lins – A Putumayo World Christmas – Putumayo

O Cometido – Chouteira – A Putumayo World Christmas – Putumayo

La canción del tamborilero (Carol of the Drum) – Raphael – 30 Aniversario 1961-1991 – Hispavox/Capitol

Jingle Bells – Will King – Christmas Spanish Guitar – Compass Productions

Cha cha all the way – The Capitol Orchestra – Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails, Part One – Capitol

Happy holiday – Peggy Lee – Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails, Part Two – Capitol

Snowfall cha cha – George Shearing & Billy May – Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails, Part Two – Capitol

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus/Jingle Bells Bossa Nova [Medley] – Eddie Dunstedter – Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails, Part One – Capitol

Combinado – Quintento Diamont – Ibérico Jazz Las producciones de Antoliano Toldos – Vampisoul

Feliz Navidad – Los Straightjackets – 'Tis the season – Yep Roc Records

We wish you a merry Christmas – Will King – Christmas Spanish Guitar – Compass Productions


Highlights of the show:

From Latin Soul, I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2010 loaded of joyful moments and fulfilled resolutions. Today, I wanted to celebrate the spirit of the season and all the songs have been renditions to Christmas classics, carols, and even traditional songs, with that Latin musical heritage or just Latin oriented that you are going to always find here in Latin Soul. The songs today aired have come pretty much from four albums. Here you may see them.

December 15 - Show #38

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Feliz Navidad – Will King – Christmas Spanish Guitar – Compass Productions

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

Nao deixa o samba morrer – Carme Lamarque – Live in Lima – Self-produced album

Yatra-Tá – Tania Maria – Latin Jazz The essential album – Manteca/Union Square Music

Mas que nada – Ella Fitzgerald – Things ain’t what they used to be (and you better believe it) – Warner

Felicidade – Suba – Latin Jazz The essential album – Manteca/Union Square Music

Monk’s bread – The Latin Jazz Quintet – Hot Sauce – Prestige

Cinnamon & Clove – Lee Evans – Cinnamon & Clove – Verve

Afro Blue – Cal Tjader feat. Willie Bobo & Mongo Santamaría – Cal Tjader’s Greatest Hits – Fantasy

Work song – Ray Barretto and New World Spirit – Taboo – Concord Picante

Treat street – Vince Guaraldi – The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi – Fantasy/OJC

Sabor a mí – Bebo & Chucho – Juntos para siempre – Calle 54 Records/Sony Music Latin

Spanish Fantasy, Part IV – Chick Corea – My Spanish Heart – Polydor

Jingle Bells – Will King – Christmas Spanish Guitar – Compass Productions

The anything can happen mambo – Xavier Cugat and his orchestra with Abbe Lane – The Original Latin Dance King – Sony

Listen here/Cold duck theme – Poncho Sánchez – Latin Soul – Concord Picante

I like it like that – Cosa Nostra – Cosa Nostra – RAFF

Latin Soul – Ralfi Pagán – Ralfi Pagán – Fania

Subway Joe – Joe Bataan – King of Latin Soul – Vampisoul

Grazin’ in the grass – Orchestra Harlow & Ismael Miranda – Compilation Playtime-Latin Soul Boogaloo – Hy&Fly

South of order – Panaman – Sinners Lounge: The Latin Sessions – Comfort Sounds

Atabaque – Jazzanova – The New Latinaires – Ubiquity Records


Highlights of the show:

'Latin Soul' is open to new ways to explore Latin jazz and soul music. The highlight of tonight's show is an interesting electronica album that may bring new paths to understand the undergoing path of Latin jazz and the remixes era.

Here you may find the compilation 'The New Latinaires Vol. 1" released in 1999 by the cutting edge label Ubiquity. The following review has been obtained from the British version of Amazon.com.



This is the first volume in a new series of Afro-Cuban/electronica fusion perpetrated by the fine folks at San Francisco's Ubiquity label. Why shouldn't the melting pot that is the U.S. produce music just as pan-ethnic and cross-fertilized? Jungle and drum-and-bass managed to absorb all manners of jazz and R&B influences into their heady stews. New electronic producers are discovering the same richness and broad textures in grooves of Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and Latin descent.
NEW LATINAIRES is hot stuff. Shifting lower-keyboard eddies ride tropical breezes through Jazzanova's "Atabaque", the music's basslines seemingly carved from rubberised mercury. Squirts of electronics spin through tympani-and-timbale battlefields on Izuru Utsumi's "Zum-Zum". Capsule 150 brings Jobim and Cal Tjader into eight arms of rhythmic nirvana viathe tumbling cymbals, yawning wah-wah, and space-age loungeair bursts entwined in "Octopus". Electronica continues to spawn myriad, wonderful hybrids, and NEW LATINAIRES 1 is the prime place to set your lobes a-twirlin'.

December 8 - Show #37

Theme song: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Music to watch girls by – Xavier Cugat and his orchestra – Compilation Music to Watch Girls By – Hitland

Don’t squeeze the peaches – Jack Costanzo & Gerry Wood – Latin Percussion with Soul –Vampisoul

Besito pa’ ti – La Lupe – Lo Mejor de La Lupe – EMI Latin

Jive samba – Cannonball Adderley – Compilation Latin Jazz Essential Album – Manteca/Square Union

Take five – Tito Puente – Compilation Latin Jazz Essential Album – Manteca/Square Union

Cielito lindo – Dave Brubeck Quartet – Bravo Brubeck! (Live in Mexico) – Legacy/Sony

Descarga Valdés – Bebo & Chucho – Juntos para siempre – Calle 54 Records/Sony Music Latin

Nica’s dream – Eddie Palmieri – Listen Here! – Concord Picante

Whirlpool – Vince Guaraldi – The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi – Fantasy/Original Jazz Classics

El loco de la colina – Ray Sepúlveda – Tropical Tribute to the Beatles – RMM

Day tripper –Domingo Quiñones – Tropical Tribute to the Beatles – RMM

Q.T.P. – Raynald Colom – #Sketches of groove# – Fresh Sound Records

Gypsy sunrise – Antonio Restucci – Crisol – Petroglyph Records

Cilantro y comino – Chano Domínguez – NFS – Verve

La voz del tiempo – Tomatito & Camarón de la Isla – Barrio Negro – Milestone

Corazón loco – Bebo & Cigala – Lágrimas Negras – Calle 54 Records/BMG-Ariola

Song of the seasons – Nicola Conte – Rituals – Schema Records

Love in – Nicola Conte – Rituals – Schema Records


Highlights of the show:

Nicola Conte's latest album "Rituals" has closed the show tonight. A 2009 album release from this incredible Italian composer, producer, arranger, DJ and so on... whose last album is truly a must for anyone who may like bossa nova and jazz, since the musical proposal of this artist is a definitive one to fall for. The review of the album that you may find below has been taken from the 'Editorial Reviews' from amazon.com.




‘Rituals’ is the third album by talented Italian musician Nicola Conti. Conti has garnered critical acclaim for his fusion of bossa nova, Latin rhythms, Italian soundtrack influences and jazz. This is a funky and enjoyable album which will delight fans and newcomers alike. Conte’s first album was Jet Sounds in 2000. The single Bossa Per Due gained international recognition and was an underground hit. It was used almost immediately for a prime-time commercial for Acura automobiles. The album was licensed for American distribution by Thievery Corporation s Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL) label in the summer of 2001 as ‘Bossa Per Due’, and was slightly reconfigured version of the ‘Italian Jet Sounds’ album. ‘Rituals’ has received great early reviews internationally, which confirms the multifaceted talent of this artist and instrumentalist from Bari. As the review in Canada s NOW Magazine stated; A short-list candidate for jazz recording of the year, the elegantly turned out Rituals finds club-selecta-turned-bandleader Nicola Conte shifting away from knocking out more dance-floor bangers toward an altogether more spiritual aesthetic and a hugely expanded support cast and it turns out to be a brilliant move. ‘Rituals’ is by far Conte s most substantial work to date, and should appeal to a whole new audience outside the club and cappuccino bar scene. Admittedly, with such a talented cast of players, including saxophonists Greg Osby and Timo Lassy, trumpeter Till Brönner and soulful vocalist José James, helping to bring the songs to life, Conte would’ve had to work hard to mess things up.

December 1st - Show #36

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Welcome to the party – Har-You Percussion Group – Compilation The New Latinaires – Ubiquity

Milestones – The Latin Jazz Quintet – Latin Soul – Prestige

Red top – The Latin Jazz Quintet – Latin Soul – Prestige

Mambo dinero – Dave Pike and his orchestra – Manhattan Latin – DECCA

Tin tin deo – Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill – Spanish Rice – Impulse!

Lucy's Spanish Harlem – Louie Ramírez & Jimmy Sabater– In The Heart Of Spanish Harlem – Verve

The three Marias – Sammy Figueroa & His Latin Jazz Explosion – The Magician – Savant Records

Pent-up house – The Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project – In The Middle – Cagoots Records

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

Bonita – Tanóra – Día Real – Moondo Records

Nice 'n' easy – Willis Jackson – Boss Shoutin' – Prestige

Samba de Orpheus – Grant Green & Big John Patton – Iron City – 32. Jazz Records

Samba de una noto só – João Gilberto – Compilation As The World Turns-Brazilian – World Pacific Records

É – Gonzaguinha – Compilation As The World Turns-Brazilian – World Pacific Records

Nagõ Buddha – Gilberto Gil – Parabolic – Warner Music Brazil/WEA Latina

Use your head – Money Mark – Compilation Red Hot + Rio – Antilles/Verve

Bellaria – Madrid de los Austrias – Amor CD – Sunshine Enterprises/Provider Recordings

Sai Das Trevas – Jazzamor – Sinners Lounge: The Latin Sessions – Comfort Sounds

Welcome to the party – Har-You Percussion Group-Jazzanova Mix – Compilation The New Latinaires – Ubiquity



Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul's highlight tonight is the album “Latin Soul”! Agreeing on the inner qualities of the Latin spirit applied to music, albums, songs, styles, or cool radio shows in 88.9 KETR public radio as this is!, the expression Latin soul is extensively shared for what it constrains pertaining to life, style and idiosyncrasy. Tonight, “Latin Soul”, the album from The Latin Jazz Quintet, sounded delicious on the air, and has been a true highlight of the show.



A short-lived but prolific ensemble that released three albums in the first years of decade of the 1960's, having even Eric Dolphy as guest musician to their second release, being “Latin Soul” the third and last of them all. The only member from one album to the next, though, is the leader and conga drum player, Juan Amalbert. Mr. Amalbert played conga drums as a regular studio musician for artists such as Sarah Vaughan, John Coltrane or Art Blakey. He also started in the production of other musicians later on. His years with The Latin Jazz Quintet are among the most fruitful, however. The lineup for “Latin Soul” had Artie Jenkins at the piano, Willie Coleman at the vibes, and the wonderfully executed saxophone of Bobby Capers, among others in the ensemble. The album works perfect as a whole and offers a great sample of the bebop years, at their height at the time of production of this album. The presence of the Latin percussion and vibes is just the right bit. All instruments blend giving the sensation of musical flow from one theme to the next, as you are being carried to an atmosphere of coolness and sophistication. An album that has not aged at all, transmitting all its fresh sound, as it had just been released in the lounge groove revival of the nineties. It also has, in my opinion, the perfect wrap in the wonderfully composed artwork of the cover. If you want to enjoy this, and other Latin jazz recordings by Juan Amalbert, it is recomendable, and more affordable, to acquire the compilation “Hot Sauce” where “Latin Soul” comes integrated among more recordings of The Latin Jazz Quintet that you won't find in the other official albums either.