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