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.