March 23 - Show #48

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

The honeydripper – Herbie Mann – Compilation Latin Dance Party 1960’s Boogaloo Vol. 2 – Warner Jazz

Gimme some love – Joe Cuba Sextet – Compilation Can You Dig It? – Brown Sugar Records

Spanish grease – Ramsey Lewis – Goin’ Latin – Verve

Light and sweet – Willie Rosario – Compilation Latin Dance Party 1960’s Boogaloo Vol. 2 – Warner Jazz

Hit the bongo – Tito Puente – Compilation Can You Dig It? – Brown Sugar Records

Boss trés bien – Quartet trés bien – Boss Trés Bien – Verve

Canciones – Agua Dulce – Searching for Juana – Self-produced : www.agua-dulce-net

Alma - otra vez – Funky Mustard – Jazza Mostaza – Moosepie Records

Causas y azares – Silvio Rodríguez – Canciones Urgentes-Greatest Hits – Luaka Bop

Unicornio – Silvio Rodríguez – Canciones Urgentes-Greatest Hits – Luaka Bop

A un perro flaco – Juan Perro – Raíces al Viento – BMG/Ariola

Amorosa guajira – Las Rubias del Norte – Rumba Internationale – Barbès Records

Cómo se goza en el barrio – Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos – The Prosthetic Cubans – Atlantic

La vida es un sueño – Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos – The Prosthetic Cubans – Atlantic

Dos gardenias – Ibrahim Ferrer & Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club – World Circuit/Nonesuch

Lo dudo – Los Panchos – Compilation The Songs of Almodóvar – Blue Note Records

El tiempo que te quede libre – María Dolores Pradera – El Canto de las Sirenas – Time Life

Babalú – Astrid Hadad – Cabaret 2000-Three Mexican Cabaret Divas-Ten years – Opción

A nadie – Liliana Felipe – Cabaret 2000-Three Mexican Cabaret Divas-Ten years – Opción

Ropa interior – Eugenia León – Cabaret 2000-Three Mexican Cabaret Divas-Ten years – Opción

Cabaret 2000 Celebrates Ten Years of the Underground World of Entertainment Better Known as Cabaret

Cardo o ceniza – Jaime Cuadra & Eva Ayllón feat. Chabuca Granda – Cholo Soy 2 – Quadrasonic Ideas



Highlights of the show:

A long-time favourite of Latin Soul, Marc Ribot got to be a remarkable moment among the songs heard tonight in Latin Soul. Here you may read a review on his album “Y Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans)” by Andrew Barlett from Amazon.com's Best of 1998.





Inventive guitarist Marc Ribot and his new combo perform songs associated with legendary Cuban composer and big band leader Arsenio Rodríguez. You'd hardly expect New York guitarist Marc Ribot--who's played with lots of ironists and cynics--to do such a spectacular, hearty job of paying homage to Cuban bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez. This CD, though, reaches far and wide, to both straightahead Cuban jazz fans and lovers of more visceral, gritty music. Ribot plays scouring guitar, getting great organ cushions from John Medeski and Roy Coleman. But it's E.J. Rodríguez's deep, traditional Cuban percussion that fattens this CD for its Best of 1998 status. --Andrew Bartlett

March 16 - Show #47

Theme: Chi chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Afro-Blue – Mongo Santamaría with Cal Tjader and Willie Bobo – Afro Roots

Shoshana – Cal Tjader – Gózame! Pero Ya… – Concord Picante

Got myself a good man – Pucho and The Latin Soul Brothers – Compilation The Most of Latin Groove – Jazz FM Records

A night in Tunisia (A tribute to Dizzy) – The Subterraneans – Compilation The Most of Latin Groove – Jazz FM Records

Caravan – Nicola Conte & Philipp Weiss at vocals – Rituals – Schema Records

Warm winds – Charles Kynard & Buddy Collette – Warm Winds – World Pacific

McCanna – Les McCann LTD. – Compilation ¡A Gozar! – Blue Note

Misa negra – Irakere – Misa Negra – Messidor

Brasil native – Lani Hall – Brasil Nativo – Windham Hill Jazz

Terra do indio – Marcos Ariel – Terra Do Indio – WEA Latina

Caminhando – Terra Sul – Kindness of Strangers – Motown Jazz

Coisa mais linda – Oscar Castro-Neves & Paul Winter – Brazilian Days – Living Music

Intro-A jeitosa do morro – Che – Sexy 70 - Music inspired by the Brazilian sacanagem movies of the 1970’s – Vampisoul

Latinaire (Batucada version) – Beatless – Compilation The New Latinaires – Ubiquity Recordings

Tema en Hi-Fi – Nicola Conte – Jet Sounds Revisited – Schema Records/ESL

Veja o sol (Spiritual South remix) – A Bossa Electrica – Compilation Latin Vibes, Vol. 2: Club Selection – Kinkysweet


Highlights of the show:

Tonight show’s highlight has no doubt been Irakere and its 17 minute track “Misa negra”, out of the album by the same title. Following, you may find a review on this album.




Released by Messidor in 1991, the CD information accounts 1987, though, for the year “Misa Negra” was recorded. Nonetheless, it is an album of Irakere at its best. Irakere, a long-life Cuban band, formed by big stars in Latin jazz today was born under the musical vision of Chucho Valdés and Paquito D'Rivera, whose careers already came together from the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna. An idea of renovation of popular music led them to set a new band so that a combination of Afro-Cuban folklore with bop jazz, funky, and fusion would be the outcome of all of it. Since its inception they set the standard for the cutting-edge vanguardist sounds in Latin jazz. Every album has offered always an element for surprise and awe. “Misa Negra” is a four-track album, composed totally by Chucho Valdés, except for the last track, “El Duke”, a version of a Dave Brubeck´s theme, which is a tribute to Duke Ellington. The big band sound in this tune is simply remarkable, like the musicianship of Mr. Valdés at the piano. The album flows around the theme “Misa negra” ('African Mass' in English) as the album´s name, which is a seventeen minute suite resembling the four movements of a Cuban Yoruba religious ceremony as they are practiced in the sincretic cult in today´s Cuba, with an opening prayer, the approximation, the arrival and development, and the farewell, of God in all the stages. The piano full range of sound expression is key and a wonder in this theme. Track three scents a Brazilian flavor in “Samba para Enrique”, and funky opening track “Concierto para metales” roots on the power of the large brass section of the band. In conclusion, a great album of Latin jazz with variety of rhythms and takes to enjoy by the hand of a legendary band with superb musicians at their best.

March 9 - Show #46

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Congo mulence – Machito with Cannonball Adderley – Compilation Putumayo Presents Latin Jazz – Putumayo Records

La cucaracha – Charlie Parker with Machito and his Orchestra – South of the Border – Verve

Night in Tunisia – Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra – Afro – Norgran Records/Verve

Steppin’ with T.P. – Hilton Ruiz – Compilation Putumayo Presents Latin Jazz – Putumayo Records

Poinciana – McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars – McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars – TELARC Jazz

Song for my brothers – Dave Valentin – Come Fly With Me – High Note Records

Rumdrum – Tomás Einarsson – Compilation Putumayo Presents Latin Jazz – Putumayo Records

Carmen cubana – Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion – Classic Meets Cuba – Sony Classical

Milestones – Mark Weinstein – Timbasa – Jazzheads

Watermelon man – Mark Weinstein – Timbasa – Jazzheads

Hobroken – Todd Isler – JAZZIZ Presents Percussion On Fire – JAZZIZ Magazine, Inc.

1st rain/Cry of faith – Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra – Borrasca – Higher Octave Music

Mediterranean sundance/Río Ancho – Paco de Lucía, John McLaughlin, Al di Meola – Friday Night In San Francisco Live – Philips/CBS

Sabiá – Antonio Carlos Jobim – Stone Flower – CTI Records/EPIC/Legacy

Samba de Orly – Miguel de León – Postcards from Rio – Self-produced album: migueldeleon.net

Forever song – Mosquitos – Mosquitos – Bar None Records

Me caí – Pacífika – Asunción – Six Degrees Records

Pa-ra-ti – Ely Guerra – Sweet & Sour, Hot Y Spicy – Higher Octave Music

Fe – Julieta Venegas – Bueninvento – BMG México/Ariola


Highlights of the show:

'Latin Soul' has presented a recent release tonight with the last work of the long-life career musician Mark Weinstein 'Timbasa'. Two versions, on a Miles Davis composition, 'Milestones' and Mongo Santamaría´s hit 'Watermelon man', represented great moments of awesome Latin jazz on tonight´s show.



"Timbasa" is the latest album by Mark Weinstein released by Jazzheads in 2008. Mark Weinstein is a jazz flutist who has been around the jazz scene as early as the decade of the 60's. A natural from New York, from an early age (and he is 69) he started learning piano as a child, and got the trombone as his instrument at age 15. Ever since, trombone was the instrument that led him into professional ensembles at a young age being part of the Eddie Palmieri's band. That was his first encounter with Latin sounds, to the point of having recorded the Latin jazz landmark album 'Cuban Roots' in 1969, where it is said he gave a different twist to pure Latin beats blended with straight jazz sounds. Along the years, he had time to become a philosophy professor and release some 15 albums where flute turned to be his instrument. The album here presented, 'Timbasa', is his latest contribution to the Latin jazz market. Here you may find 9 instrumental tracks, with some voice humming accompanying occasionally, which are renditions to others' compositions for the most part. 'Milestones', by Miles Davis is the opening track and it is a wonderful tune with the perfect blend of Latin beats and jazz melodies. Versions you may find are from compositions by Chucho Valdés, Duke Ellington's 'Caravan', Wayne Shorter, and the smooth outcome of Herbie Hancock's 'Watermelon man'. The overall sound of Mr. Weisntein´s flute in all tracks add the above mentioned smoothness touch to the whole album. In general, you may expect a nice mix of upbeat percussion section and the softness of the flute. The theme 'Kavaklari cubano' explore in a mixture of unprecise humming, leading piano, steady rhythm, quite a mystical tune, which is the only tune following a different pattern than the others. As the final track 'Just another guajira', which is not just another, but just another awesome sample of percussion jam session to end to leave the listener with a great taste in mouth. Sumarizing, a good upbeat Latin jazz sample with some remarkable tunes to let oneself be carried away in smooth groove. One last observation may go on the artwork on the cover, which, honestly, shows a lot of potential to be improved.