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.