December 21 - Show #69 -- Christmas Special

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label


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

Santa Claus is coming to town – Ed Calle & Arturo Sandoval – Compilation Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas A Not So Silent Night – Playboy Jazz/Concord Records

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

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

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

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

Deck the Halls – Will King – Christmas Spanish Guitar – Compass Productions

Silent Night – Caribbean Jazz Project – Compilation Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas A Not So Silent Night – Playboy Jazz/Concord Records

Have yourself a merry little Christmas – Poncho Sánchez – Compilation Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas A Not So Silent Night – Playboy Jazz/Concord Records

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

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

O, Christmas tree (samba) – Brave Combo – Christmas Present – Self-edited: www.brave.com/bo

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

O Cometido – Chouteira – A Putumayo World Christmas – Putumayo

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

Jingle bells – Ed Calle & Arturo Sandoval – Compilation Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas A Not So Silent Night – Playboy Jazz/Concord Records

The little drummer boy – Brave Combo – It’s Christmas, Man! – P-Vine Records

What child is this – Poncho Sánchez – Compilation Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas A Not So Silent Night – Playboy Jazz/Concord Records

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Will King – Christmas Spanish Guitar – Compass Productions

Corrido navideño – Brave Combo – It’s Christmas, Man! – P-Vine Records

Santa baby – Sheila E – Compilation Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas A Not So Silent Night – Playboy Jazz/Concord Records

Feliz Navidad – Pete Escovedo & Ray Obiedo – Compilation Playboy Latin Jazz Christmas A Not So Silent Night – Playboy Jazz/Concord Records


Latin Soul has aired today its traditional Christmas Special. You heard a Latin jazz approach to Xmas classics, in addition to other tunes that are traditional folklore Xmas seasonal for some regions of Latin America and Spain and Portugal. All in all, it has been another great chance to enjoy one more edition of Latin Soul, in your station, 88.9 KETR. Next, you may see some of the album covers where songs for this show were coming from. Thanks for listening!

December 7 - Show #68

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez
Song-Artist-Album-Label

Lucy’s Spanish Harlem – Louie Ramírez – Compilation Latin Jazz – Jazzclub/Verve

It’s not unusual – Willie Bobo – Compilation Latin Jazz – Jazzclub/Verve

Soul limbo – Cándido – Thousand Finger Man – Blue Note

Cugi’s cocktail – Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra – Compilation Latin Jazz – Jazzclub/Verve

Sunday go meetin’ – Latin Jazz Quintet – Latin Soul – Prestige

Soul sauce (Guachi guaro) – Cal Tjader – Compilation From Latin to Jazz Dance Vol. 5 – Rare
Groove Recordings

Day tripper – Mongo Santamaría – Instant Party – Concord Picante

Loverman (Oh, where can you be) – Mambo Zombies – Mambo Zombies – Self-edited www.mambozombies.com

D’Son – Omar Sosa – Afreecanos – Otá Records

Cha con marimba – Omar Sosa & NDR Bigband – Ceremony – Otá Records

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

The big idea – Phil Hawkins and his ensemble – Sugarcaine Suite – P. Note Music

Milestones – VW Brothers – Muziek – Patois Records

Nardis – Michel Camilo – Spirit of the Moment – Telarc Records

La fiesta – Michel Camilo & Tomatito – Spain Again – Decca

Te amo, I love you – Ely Guerra – Sweet & Sour, Hot y Spicy – Higher Octave Music

Fe – Julieta Venegas – Bueninvento – BMG/Ariola

Me caí – Pacifika – Asunción – Six Degrees Records

Barataria – Palo Viejo – Estás Aquí Ahora – Self-edited: http://www.myspace.com/paloviejo


Highlights of the show:
Latin Soul offered today a double set of Omar Sosa, the piano and marimba player from Cuba. A young and talented musician carrying the spirit of the old Cuban trova to today’s standards of contemporary Latin jazz. Next, you may have the Editorial Review of Amazon.com for his latest album released in 2010 by Otá Records, aired tonight in Latin Soul.





Ceremony is a major new project, the fruit of pianist-composer Omar Sosa's first big-band collaboration with composer-arranger-cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, Hamburg's 18-piece NDR Bigband (North German Radio/Norddeutscher Rundfunk), and the Omar Sosa Quartet, featuring Julio Barreto (drums), Childo Tomas (electric bass0, and Marcos Ilukan (Afro-Cuban percussion). Sosa himself plays piano and marimba. Recorded in two sessions (2007 & 2008) at NDR's Hamburg studios under the direction of Morelenbaum and Sosa, Ceremony features Morelenbaum's brilliant arrangements of selections from Omar's Spirit of the Roots (1999), Bembon (2000), and Afreecanos (2009). It also acknowledges the majesty of the legendary Afro-Cuban big bands of Frank 'Machito' Grillo, Chico O'Farrill and Dizzy Gillespie, while extending those revered traditions in a contemporary salute to the expansive universe of world jazz, wherein Sosa himself continues to reign as a joyous, generous, abundant, and essential creative spirit. From the Editorial Review of Amazon.com