September 28 - Show #62

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

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

Watermelon man – Mongo Santamaría – Compilation Latin Soul, Descarga & Boogaloo –
Manzana Producciones Discográficas

Camel walk – The Latinaires – Compilation The Bad Boogaloo Ny Yorican Sounds 1966-1970 – Fania

Dame un tipi – Frankie Dante & Orquestra Flamboyan – Compilation Playtime, Latin Soul Boogaloo – Hy&Fly Records

Hey mama – Johnny Zamot – Boogaloo Frog – J. Z. Productions

Every Monday – Manteca – Tremendo Boogaloo – Freestyle Records

Mini skirt – Mambo Zombies – Mambo Zombies – Self-produced: www.mambozombies.com

Hippie tune (Song for Josh) – New Cool Collective – Soul Jazz Latin Flavours
Nineties Vibe – Club 802/Challenge Records

Soul limbo – Cándido – Thousand Finger Man – Blue Note

The opener – Latin Percussion Jazz Ensemble – Just Like Magic – Latin Percussion Inc.

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

Tupac Amaru – Gato Barbieri – Fenix – Flying Dutchman/RCA Victor/BMG France

El arriero – Gato Barbieri – Fenix – Flying Dutchman/RCA Victor/BMG France

Bert’s bossa nova – Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra – Compilation The Bossa Nova
Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol. 5 – Rare Groove Recordings

Bossa per due – Nicola Conte – Bossa Per Due – Eighteenth Street Lounge Music

Sai das trevas – Jazzamor – Compilation Sinners Lounge: The Latin Sessions – Confort Sounds

Criança das ondas – Intuit – Compilation Sinners Lounge: The Latin Sessions – Confort Sounds

Brazil nuts – Alex Valentin – Compilation Latin Vibes: Club Selection – Kinkysweet


Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul dedicated a set to one of the favorites artists and album ever played in the show. This is, Gato Barbieri and his 1972 album ‘Fenix’. An awesome musical gem that naturally deserves to be the highlight everytime is played on the air. Next, you may find a review on this album.





Gato Barbieri´s “Fenix” is an album from 1971 that could have been released today, 40 years later, and it would keep the freshness and cutting-edge than from back then. Well, we don´t talk about some electronica effects or something alike, but the pattern-free melodic evolutions in it. Greatly inspired by the free jazz movement of earlier seventies, this album will resemble to legendary saxophonist such as Pharoa Sanders or Ornette Coleman. The presence of the raw saxophone sound all over guiding the tune at its discretion is the distinctive feature of the earlier years of Gato Barbieri, and this album in particular earned him popularity becoming quite well known among jazz connoiseaurs or those seeking the new and non cannonical jazz style at the time. Regarding the content of the album, it is a fact in Mr. Barbieri´s first part of career to have a conception of jazz like a panamerican source of musical representation. This is, through this compositions, he wants to follow the jazz standards, adding nonetheless those instruments from the Southamerican music tradition. So, instruments from the Andean cultures wouldn´t surprise in this productions. In “Fenix”, the approach is more to the Brazilian music school, and instruments like the birimbau and conga and bongo drums are present all ove the album, at times getting engaged with samba rythms as well. The six tracks of the album are superb, offering a great listening experience along the forty minutes it lasts. Tunes which are a must to review from time to time: “Falsa bahiana”, “Bahia” which are clearly Brazilian inspired, and “El arriero”, in the best Gato´s tradition of saxophone raw power, cheered up vocally boosted tune, which is so typical of him. Definitively a gem of a very personal way to understand Latin jazz, easy to fall under the spell work of art.

September 21 - Show #61

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

We got Latin soul – Mongo Santamaría – Compilation Kool It, Soul Funk & Jazz Go Latin – Harmless Recordings

It’s not what you say – Louie Ramírez – Louie’s Grooves – Vampi Soul

Latin Soul Square Dance – Joe Bataan with Los Fulanos – King of Latin Soul – Vampi Soul

Fever – La Lupe – Compilation Kool It, Soul Funk & Jazz Go Latin – Harmless Recordings

Do you dig it? – Ray Barretto – Latino con Soul – PolyGram Records

Tighten up – Al Escobar & His Orchestra – Compilation Kool It, Soul Funk & Jazz Go Latin – Harmless Recordings

Vehicle – Susie Hansen – Representante de la Salsa – Jazz Caliente

Las calles de Chicago – Susie Hansen – Representante de la Salsa – Jazz Caliente

The new arrival – Charlie Sepúlveda – The New Arrival – Antilles

Passing by – Marlon Simon and the Nagual Spirits – In Case You Missed It – Jazzheads

El toro – Jerry González & The Fort Apache Band – Moliendo Café – Sunny Side Music

Contagio – Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Compilation Afro-Cuban Jazz Now – Blue Note

Yemayá – Jane Bunnett – Radio Guantánamo: Guantánamo Blues Project Vol. 1 – Blue Note

Footprints – Mark Weinstein – Timbasa – Jazzheads

Go east – Jeno Somlai – Let It Go – Self-produced album: www.jenosomlai.net

Bulerías del norte – Tino di Geraldo – Nuevos Medios Colección – Nuevos Medios

Entre tinieblas – Jorge Pardo – Las Cigarras Son Quizá Sordas – Milestone

Orobroy – Dorantes – Orobroy – Phantom


Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul kicked off tonight with an interesting selection of hyper upbeat tunes from reference artists from the so called Latin soul of the 70’s. The compilation Kool It, Soul Funk & Jazz Go Latin fed most of this segment. Next you may find a review on this album.





This compilation released by the British label Harmless in 2001 is another sample of the high interest that in the latest years is brought to this other kind of the golden era of the 70’s soul. Here you may find the great names of the genre, such as Mongo Santamaría, Ray Barretto, Joe Bataan, Jack Costanzo, Jimmy Sabater, and even La Lupe. The compilation works perfect as a whole despite the variety because it really sets a flow from tune to tune, truly making the whole piece a connected collection made up of very well back to back complemented songs. In the end, it is a very enjoyable piece of music to retro speed up your parties or just having a cool funky moment. Many of the songs are in English, always having a base on a typical Latin percussion and song rhythm structure. In this sense, Mongo Santamaría and Jack Costanzo got the highest accuracy in the crossover of Latin and Soul. Mr. Santamaría’s “We got Latin Soul” could be taken as an anthem for the genre. Ray Barretto is bringing here a more jazzy mode, as Joe Bataan, with his cover of “Theme of Shaft”, is closer to a purest soul style. Al Escobar & His Orchestra is another of the assets of the album, as Pucho & the Latin Brothers, who is a main reference in the style. Finally, the cover of “Fever” by La Lupe is one to remember and appreciate in its entire kitschy dimension. Concluding, a varied and very attractive compilation to help out interested listeners around finding more artists who at a certain point of music history wanted to explore both their Latin and Afro-American musical heritage with truly enjoyable results.

September 14 - Show #60

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label

Campiña – Afro-Cuban Jazz Project – Putumayo presents Cuba – Putumayo Records

Sabroso como el guarapo – Orquesta Sublime – Putumayo presents Cuba – Putumayo Records

El bodeguero – Rubén González – Chanchullo – World Circuit/Nonesuch

No me llores más – Omara Portuondo – Buena Vista presents Omara Portuondo – World Circuit/Nonesuch

Boliviana – Irakere – Putumayo presents Cuba – Putumayo Records

Flores para tu altar – Celina y Reutilio – Éxitos de Celina y Reutilio – Discos Meca Suaritos

Rhapsodia del maravilloso – Sabu Martínez & Arsenio Rodríguez – Palo Congo – Blue Note

La luna en tu mirada – Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán – Mambo Sinuendo – World Circuit/Nonesuch

Foforo Fo Firi – Los Hombres Calientes – Vol. 3 New Congo Square – Basin Street Records

Brother running – Los Hombres Calientes – Vol. 3 New Congo Square – Basin Street Records

Fantazias de samba – Los Hombres Calientes – Vol. 3 New Congo Square – Basin Street Records

Berimbau – Americo Bellotto – Compilation The Mood Mosaic 7-The New Shapes of Sound –Partners in Crime

Bim bom – Silvio Silvera – Compilation The Mood Mosaic 7-The New Shapes of Sound – Partners in Crime

L’enfant samba – Cortex – Compilation The Mood Mosaic 7-The New Shapes of Sound – Partners in Crime

Forever song – Mosquitos – Mosquitos – Bar/None Records

No ano que vem – Tania Maria – Compilation The Most of Latin Groove – Jazz FM Records

Tudo que você podia ser – Azymuth feat. Nair Candia – Compilation The Most of Latin Groove – Jazz FM Records

Nagô Buddha – Gilberto Gil – Parabolic – Warner Music Brazil/WEA Latina Inc.

Minhas lágrimas – Caetano Veloso – Cê – Nonesuch Records


Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul dedicated a set to the New Orleans ensemble Los Hombres Calientes. Out of their album New Congo Square Vol. 3., the veterans from the Big Easy give a shot to a jazz and latin crossover. Next, you may find a review on their album by Eugene Holley, Jr., from Amazon.com.




New Orleans's fabled Congo Square was the meeting place where blacks from Africa and the West Indies danced to their native grooves during the slavery era. Paying homage to one of the Crescent City's most historic spots is the city's own Los Hombres Calientes--percussionist Bill Summers, trumpeter Irvin Mayfield, and the newest member, drummer Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez. They take Congo Square to the Americas beyond the U.S. with Cuba's Isaac Delgado and Jamaica's Burning Spear. Recorded in New Orleans, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Bahia, New Congo Square delves into the rumba/salsa "Forforo Fo Firi," the reggae classic "I Shot the Sheriff," and the merengue-motored "Dominicanos." Mayfield plays the Brazilian bossa nova with passion on "Corcovado/Nocturnal Low Moan" and Jamaica's Rastafarian rhythms spring forth on "Nyabinghi." Stateside, the group also funks up contemporary urban dance grooves on the "New Bus Stop," and trumpeter Michael Ray and vocalist Kermit Ruffins serve up a tasty musical gumbo on "New Second Line." Los Hombres Calientes vividly connect the musical dots in the African American hemisphere. By Eugene Holley, Jr., from Amazon.com