July 19 - Show #88

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

One, two, three – Ramsey Lewis - Goin’ Latin – Verve

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

Why do I love you? – Charlie Parker – South of the Border - Verve

Mambo Inn – Grant Green – The Latin Bit – Blue Note

Yuyo – Bobby Hutcherson – Montara – Blue Note

Cubano chant – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Crum Suite – Sony/Columbia

Latin fever – Jack Costanzo – Compilation Latino Blue – Blue Note

Guajira en azul – Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri – El Sonido Nuevo – Verve

Peanut vendor – Lalo Schifrin – Talkin’ Verve – Verve

Mucha muchacha – Esquivel and His Orchestra – Latin-Esque – RCA/BMG

Andalucía – Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica – The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel – Self-produced: www.orchestrotica.com

The boulevard of broken dreams – Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica – The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel – Self-produced: www.orchestrotica.com

Soy gitano – The Mendoza/Mardin Project – Jazzpaña – Atlantic/WEA

De San José a Mojácar – Jorge Pardo – Las cigarras son quizá sordas – Milestone

Refrito – Chano Domínguez – Chano – KOTN

Guisella – Yuri Juárez – Afroperuano – Saponegro Records

Valicha – Gabriel Alegría & Afro-Peruvian Jazz Sextet – Wayruro – Rhino Records/WEA

Balada para un loco – Astor Piazzolla & Amelita Baltar – Itinerary of a genius – INA/BMG


Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul had three young musicians guest in the studio today. They supported Latin Soul and 88.9 KETR.

Their names are Luca Babineaux, Rubén Hervás and Candela Hervás. Their fun cool spirit and talent will get them a long way in whatever they will decide to do.

July 12 - Show #87

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

Caballo Viejo – Manuel Galbán & Ry Cooder – Mambo Sinuendo – Nonesuch

Y sabes bien – Los Zafiros – Bossa Cubana – World Circuit/Nonesuch

He venido – Los Zafiros – Bossa Cubana – World Circuit/Nonesuch

Patricia – Manuel Galbán & Ry Cooder – Mambo Sinuendo – Nonesuch

Amor de loca juventud – Compay Segundo, Ry Cooder et al. – Buena Vista Social Club – World Circuit/Nonesuch

Rhapsodia del maravilloso – Sabu Martínez & Arsenio Rodríguez – Palo Congo – Blue Note

Choserito plena – Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos –The Prosthetic Cubans – Atlantic

Contagio – Gonzalo Rubalcaba – Afro-Cuban Jazz Now – Blue Note

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

Nômade – Skank – Cosmotron – Sony

Dreamworld – David Byrne + Caetano Veloso – Onda Sonora – Red Hot +Lisbon – Red Hot Foundation

A Névoa – Paulo Bragança + Carlos Maria Trindade – Onda Sonora – Red Hot +Lisbon – Red Hot Foundation

Panis et circenses – Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes – Universal/Polydor

Os dias são à noite (Suso Saiz remix) – Madredeus – Onda Sonora – Red Hot +Lisbon – Red Hot Foundation

Olha a Ribeirinha – Negros de Luz – A Tribute to Amália Rodrigues – Times Square Records

Comparito – Diego Amador – Piano Jondo – Milestones Records/Nuevos Medios

Orobroy – Dorantes – Orobroy – Phantom Sound & Vision

Nuevo día – Lole y Manuel – Lo mejor de Lole y Manuel – CBS/Sony

Volando voy – Camarón de la Isla - La Leyenda del Tiempo – Universal


Highlights of the show:

Latin Soul made a tribue today to the Cuban guitar player Manuel Galbán. A landmark in this instrument and overall presence in the Cuban music of second half of XXth century, Mr. Galbán died last week at the end of a presumably worthy musical life. Next, you may find a review from his album with Ry Cooder 'Mambo Sinuendo' found on the editorial of Amazon.com



If there's a certain instant familiarity to this collaborative celebration between U.S. guitar icon/musicologist Ry Cooder and Cuban fret legend Manuel Galbán, it's only testimony to how deeply the island nation's rich musical heritage permeated American pop music in the '50s, '60s, and beyond. Cooder and Galbán (a key compatriot in the American guitarist's Buena Vista Social Club project) invent a back-to-the-future sound--twin guitars fronting a Cuban rhythm section of two drum kits, congas, and bass--whose dreamy swing quotient is matched only by its sense of mirthful abandon. Thus tracks like "Dru Me Negrita" and "Los Twangueros" manage to evoke everything from Link Wray, Duane Eddy, and the Ventures to Mancini and Esquivel, while Cooder and Galbán twirl a standard like "Patricia" and the nervy title track around dueling poles of tradition and experimentation with deceptive grace. It's joyous, mercurial stuff that the two musicians conjure at their fingertips. --Jerry McCulley, from Amazon.com