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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

March 29 - Show #79

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


Bella cosa – Mambo Zombies – MZ3 – Self-produced: MamboZombies.com

Peter Gunn Mambo – Jack Costanzo & His Orchestra – Ultra-Lounge Mambo Fever – Capitol Records

I can’t believe that you’re in love with me – The Buzon Trio – Ultra-Lounge Mambo Fever – Capitol Records

Taki Kari – Yma Sumac – Ultra-Lounge Mambo Fever – Capitol Records

Deve ser amor – Vinícius de Moraes & Odette Lara – Vinícius + Odette Lara – Polygram

Falsa baiana – João Gilberto – João Gilberto – Polygram/Verve

Minha senhora – Gal Costa & Caetano Veloso – Gal e Caetano Veloso – Domingo – Philips

Bicho do mato – Walter Wanderley – Compilation Nova Bossa - Red Hot on Verve – Verve

Surfboard – Roberto Menescal e seu conjunto – Compilation Nova Bossa - Red Hot on
Verve – Verve

Upa Neginho – Edu Lobo – Compilation Nova Bossa - Red Hot on Verve – Verve

Supercabana – Caetano Veloso – Compilation Nova Bossa - Red Hot on Verve – Verve

Doña María – The Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project – In The Middle – Cagoots Records

Suk-Kyo’s Samba – Phil Hawkins and his ensemble – Sugarcaine Suite – P. Note Music

Brazil – Mark Weinstein – Jazz Brasil – Jazzheads

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

Samba triste – Eliane Elías – Compilation Calle 54 - Music from the Miramax motion picture – Blue Note

Historia de amor en El Carmen – Richie Zellón – Landología – Songosaurus Music

Valicha – Gabriel Alegría & Afro-Peruvian Jazz Sextet – Wayruro – Rhino Music

Cántelo usted – Yuri Juárez – Afroperuano – Saponegro Records

Espérame – Eva Ayllón, Jean Pierre Magnet & La Gran Banda – Del Perú Para el Mundo – Jaguar Music Records

Quiero que estés conmigo – Pilar de la Hoz – Jazz con Sabor Peruano – Jaguar Music Records


Highlights of the show:

A wonderful Brazilian inspired Latin jazz tune was aired tonight, “Doña María”, which was a great transition from Brazilian bossa and samba to Latin jazz. Next, you may find a review of this album by The Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project.



“In the Middle” is the title of the 2007 album released on Kagoot Records by The Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project. Craig Russo, an experienced jazz musician who falls for the Afro-Cuban percussion and guides his career in terrains of Latin jazz, being “In the Middle” in the actual middle of the discography of The Craig Russo Latin Jazz Project ensemble. “In the Middle” is not a name chosen randomly, as it is quite an evocative one for what this group of musicians presents in this album. In the middle is the situation of many aspects such as the location of the band, in the state of Illinois; a mixture in the middle of two schools of music such as jazz and Afro-Caribbean; apparently in the middle of the career of Mr. Russo. Let me add that to be “in the middle” of so many aspects, the musical result is ahead many standards. Mr. Russo presents a collection of ten tunes that represents a jewel of contemporary Latin jazz with roots in classical Afro-Cuban patterns of rhythms. A call to Brazilian melodies is also present through the song ‘Doña María’, a tune that brings quite a good mixture of different influences, as the nature of the whole album wants. The cover of ‘Bésame mucho’ is also remarkable. In conclusion, a very compact album that flows from beginning to end putting together a wonderful crossover of Latin music and jazz inspiration.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

March 22 - Show #78

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


El carretero - Elíades Ochoa, vocals; Ry Cooder, Cachaíto López, Ibrahim Ferrer – Buena Vista Social Club – Nonesuch/World Circuit

Mali Cuba – Elíades Ochoa, Toumani Diabate, et al. – Afrocubism – Nonesuch/World Circuit

Djelimady Rumba – Elíades Ochoa, Toumani Diabate, et al. – Afrocubism – Nonesuch/World Circuit

Guantanamera – Elíades Ochoa, Toumani Diabate, et al. – Afrocubism – Nonesuch/World Circuit

Jiin ma jiin ma – Orchestra Baobab – Specialist in All Styles – Nonesuch/World Circuit

Mani mani kuru – Ketama, Toumani Diabate, Danny Thompson – Songhai – Nuevos Medios

Caracola – Juan Perro – Raíces al Viento – BMG/Ariola

Unicornio – Silvio Rodríguez – Canciones Urgentes - Los Grandes Éxitos – Luaka Bop

Steppin’ with T. P. – Hilton Ruiz – Putumayo presents Latin Jazz – Putumayo

Just another guajira – Bobby Matos & His Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble – Beautiful as the Moon – Life Force Jazz Records

Un poco loco – The Conga Kings – Compilation Jazz Latino - A Collection of Latin Inspirations – Chesky Records

I mean you – Mark Weinstein – Jazz Brasil – Jazzheads

Samba para dos – Eddy Harris feat. Lalo Schifrin – Compilation The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhytms Vol. 5 – Rare Groove Recordings

Summer samba – Walter Manderlay – Compilation Los Años Maravillosos del Brasil – EMIN/WEA

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

Samba de una nota so – Maria Leao – Compilation Los Años Maravillosos del Brasil – EMIN/WEA

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

Bossa per due – Thievery Corporation/Nicola Conte – Jet Sounds Revisited – Eighteenth Street Lounge Music

Rio de Janeiro blue – Mario Biondi and the High Five Quintet – A Handful of Soul – Intuition/Edizioni Ishtar


Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul has released tonight the album ‘Afrocubism’ by the collaboration of Elíades Ochoa & Cuarteto Patria from Cuba and the Toumani Diabate troupe from Mali. Three tunes were played tonight making the release of the album a moment to highlight.



‘Afrocubism’, the 2010 release by Nonesuch Records means the realization of long pursued project by the producer Nick Gold. He had the idea of putting together traditional music of Cuba and Mali and expects the miracle of the musical communion to happen. It couldn’t be back in the day, and the project became the world famous ‘Buena Vista Social Club’. So, in this album you are going to meet the nowadays renown Elíades Ochoa and his Cuarteto Patria together with Toumani Diabaté, Mady Diabaté, Lassana Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyate and Djelimady Tounkara.

The final musical mixture tries to find the balance to so different musical traditions, getting in the end a good feeling of fusion and an even outcome of music roots. On the Cuban side, the guitar and the usual ensemble of brass and percussion work to cooperate with the hypnotical sounds of the kora, the ngoni and the balafon, traditional instruments from Mali. The tunes are in part compositions by Toumani Diabate and revisions of Cuban classics, as ‘La culebra’ or ‘Pa los pinares se va Montoro’. However, the nicest blend of sounds is obtained in those by Mr. Toumani Diabate. There is a version, which is the final track to pack the whole collection, of ‘Guantanamera’ which is much more enjoyable in its live version. The album was presented in summer 2010 in La Mar de Músicas Festival in Cartagena, Spain, long ahead of the release of the album. Nevertheless, the waiting has been worthwhile and the results of so many years of projecting and rehearsal are contained in this close to an hour experience of fussion of music apart put together with remarkable good sense.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

March 15 - Show #77

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


Latin fever – Jack Costanzo – Latin Fever – Liberty

Don’t squeeze the peaches – Jack Costanzo & Gerry Woo – Latin Percussion with Soul – Vampi Soul

Agua dulce – The Jazz Crusaders – Chile con Soul – Pacific Jazz

Mambo Bobbie – Latin Jazz Quintet – Latin Soul – Prestige

Soul cha – Joe Torres – Latino con Soul – World Pacific

Woody’n you – Sabu Martínez & Dizzy Gillespie – Jazz Espagnole – Vampi Soul

Lucy’s Spanish Harlem – Louie Ramírez – In the Heart of Spanish Harlem – Mercury

Summer samba – Dizzy Gillespie – Melody Lingers On – Limelight

Mas que nada – Oscar Peterson – Soul Espanol – Limelight

Take five – Tito Puente – Mambo Diablo – Concord Records

Skaravan – Jazz Jamaica – Compilation Latin Jazz - The Essential Album – Union
Square Music Label

Mr PC – Snowboy – Compilation Latin Jazz - The Essential Album – Union Square Music
Label

Got myself a good man – Pucho and The Latin Soul Brothers – Best of Pucho – Fantasy

Bye-Ya – Jerry González – Compilation Latin Jazz - La Combinación Perfecta – Smithsonian Folkways

Serafina del Caribe – Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet – To Hear From There – Patois
Records

Libertango – Astor Piazzolla – Itinerary of a Genius – Éditions Milan Music/BMG

Como dos extraños – Tango Bar – Compilation Jazz Latino - A Collection of Latin
Inspirations – Chesky Records

Stone flower – Antonio Carlos Jobim – Stone Flower – Epic/Legacy

Aula de Matemática – Oscar Castro-Neves & Paul Winter – Brazilian Days – Earth Music
Productions

Deve ser amor – Herbie Mann – Do the Bossa Nova – Atlantic

Samba diferente – Sexteto Electrónico Moderno – Sounds from the Elegant World - groovy night club music from Uruguay 1968-71 – Vampi Soul



Highlights of the show:

Among the great set dedicated to Brazilian music, a historic recording to highlight since it’s a symbolic approach to Brazilian classics from one of the greatest in jazz, Oscar Peterson.



The title of the album, ‘Soul Español’, may be a little misleading since you are not to listen to Spanish or Latin oriented music specifically. The orientation is more the Brazilian musical tradition, making rendition on Brazilian classics as ‘Mas que nada’, ‘Manha de carnaval’ or ‘Samba de Orfeu”. The song played in the show tonight, ‘Carioca’, is a piano tune masterpiece. You wouldn’t expect less from Mr. Peterson, and so ‘Carioca’ is a delightful piece taken by a breathless piano solo that reconcile with life and make you being thankful for just existing. Almost the whole album does. Being this said, let your senses be delighted. All the tunes make the piano, of course, protagonist making this album a great crossover of a jazz master introducing another musical inspiration as Brazilian bossa is. As a result, as we could see, a fantastic piece of music all wrapped up under this album.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

March 8 - Show #76

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


Can’t buy me love (No puedes comprarme) – Guianko – Tropical Tribute to the Beatles – RMM

A hard day’s night – Johnny Rivera – Tropical Tribute to the Beatles – RMM

A hard day’s night – Manfredo Fest – Os Sambeatles – Fermata

Can’t buy me love – Manfredo Fest – Os Sambeatles – Fermata

Para Lennon e McCartney – Friends from Rio – Compilation Café do Brasil - A Pure Blend of Cool Brazilian Music – Union Square Music

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

Ifá, um canto pra subir – Margareth Menezes – Beleza Tropical 2 – Luaka Bop

Balança pena – Marisa Monte – Beleza Tropical 2 – Luaka Bop

Batuque – Daniela Mercury – Beleza Tropical 2 – Luaka Bop

Outro lado – Zuco 103 – Compilation Latin Jazz - The Essential Album – Union Square Music

Xuertnom – Projecto 3 – Compilation Café do Brasil - A Pure Blend of Cool Brazilian Music – Union Square Music

Vals for us – Azymuth – Compilation Latin Jazz - The Essential Album – Union Square Music

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

Latin soul square dance – Joe Bataan with Los Fulanos – King of Latin Soul – Vampi Soul

Te doy la vida – Compay Segundo – Las Flores de la Vida – Nonesuch Records/World Circuit

Perla oscura – Juan Perro – Raíces al Viento – BMG/Ariola

La noche de un trago – Juan Perro – Raíces al Viento – BMG/Ariola

Chanchullo – Rubén González – Chanchullo – Nonesuch Records/World Circuit

Thembi – Pharoah Sanders – Thembi – Impulse!

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


Highlights of the show
:

Latin Soul has played two tunes by former frontman of Spanish pop band Radio Futura, Santiago Auserón, under his pseudonym Juan Perro. The Spaniard brought two hot tunes and made the Cuban traditional music set.





Santiago Auserón, AKA Juan Perro for the occasion and the forthcoming career after this album, left the frontman position of Radio Futura (legendary pop band from Spain which got dissolved) to start his solo project “Raíces al Viento”. He changed his musical identity and inspiration, and left many die-hard followers in dismay. Juan Perro released this album in 1995 and explored the traditional sounds of the Cuban old trova, something so far apart from the pop sounds that made him renown. The change was for good as the Ariola/BMG label release were right to offer a new face of Santiago Auserón before Ry Cooder did with his Buena Vista Social Club a few years later. Santiago Auserón/Juan Perro wasn’t obviously so successful to bring old Cuban trova back to world popularity as the former did, but got us a wonderful album mixing his pop music expertise and the inspiration he found in Cuban lands. The opening track ‘A un perro flaco’ is a cheerful tune setting the happy tone for the album, introducing us in the world of this album, to the common stories from common people in the Caribbean. Stories such that one may live over there, or come across when they tell you about them. Stories that make possible the music and deal with old pirates, beautiful women in La Habana or Santiago, nights of pleasure, joy and party, people (or dogs) trying to find their way in life. You may also find neighboring countries music inspired tunes as well, as some Jamaican related tunes where characteristics guys from Negril come across the protagonist of our songs, presumably Juan Perro, or anyone whoever that is. Anyone can be the protagonist of a song. That’s the idea, in my opinion, behind the album. “Raíces al viento”, or Roots to the Wind in English, are those that anyone may find whenever you decide to leave your usual vital background and explore beyond. This great album is the perfect transition to get more into Cuban along the hand of pop music standards.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

March 1 - Show #75

Theme: Chin chon chow – Louie Ramírez

Song-Artist-Album-Label


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

That’s the way – RG Royal Sound Orchestra – Impact – RG Records

Fuego – Manteca – Tremendo Boogaloo – Freestyle Records

Light and sweet – Willie Rosario – Compilation Latin Dance Party 1960’s Boogaloo – Warner

Do you dig it? – Ray Barretto – Latino con Soul – Polydor

Boogaloo Lebron – The Lebron Brothers Orchestra – Compilation The Rough Guide to
Boogaloo – World Music Network

Batman’s boogaloo – Bobby Valentin – Compilation The Rough Guide to Boogaloo – World Music Network

Spanish rice – Clark Terry & Chico O’Farrill – Spanish Rice – Impulse!

Barrio Nuevo – Louie Ramírez – Louie’s Grooves Latin Soul, Jazz & Boogaloo from Louie Ramírez – Vampi Soul

Concierto para metales – Irakere – Misa Negra – Messidor

We are our father’s sons – McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars – McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars – TELARC Jazz

The peanut vendor (El manisero) – Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet – To Hear From There – Patois Records

We’re off to see the Wizard – Peter MaCDonough – The Wizar of Oz A Latin Jazz Suite for Soprano Saxophone – Self-produced: www. petermacdonoughs.com

A Ernesto – Mark Weinstein – Timbasa – Jazzheads

Brazil – Mark Weinstein – Jazz Brasil – Jazzheads

Mulatas, etc, and All – Paulo Mora – Winds of Brazil (Um sopro de Brasil) – Adventure Music/Núcleo Contemporãneo

Amorous flower – Altamiro Carrilho – Winds of Brazil (Um sopro de Brasil) – Adventure Music/Núcleo Contemporãneo

Mas que nada – Lani Hall – Brasil Nativo – Windham Hill Jazz

Jambull – Antonio Restuci – Crisol – Petroglyph Records

Spain – Michel Camilo y Tomatito – Spain – Polygram


Highlights of the show:

Among the great tunes from tonight show, a special release took place today when airing ‘Brazil’ from last work by Mark Weinstein, who is visiting Brazilian classics and approaching to jazz sounds from a Brazilian perspective.



The prolific Mark Weinstein is bringing ‘Jazz Brasil’, another album in a short period of time since his last 2010 release in his label Jazzheads, which is bringing his new work as well. This time, the long-life Latin jazz musician, renowned for his approach to Afro-Cuban inspired music, make a leap into Brazilian musical terrains along with his flute and a small lineup with the basics; this is piano, bass and drums, accompanying him. Other than the awesome renditions to Tom Jobim’s tunes as ‘Triste’ or ‘If you never come to me’, you may find the popular ‘Brazil’ which sounds pretty cool from the flute perspective by Mr. Weinstein. He also presents covers of other very popular jazz musicians as Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter or Herbie Mann. The overall sense of peacefulness and achievement of musical mastery is remarkable throughout the whole album. However, the pulse and tense from the first half of the album doesn’t keep up as well in the second half, where the tone is mellower and it is offered a darker, more introspective view. Nevertheless, this is a great album as a whole which will be delightful to take in bits to truly appreciate to make it grow in your appreciation. Enjoy!