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Chucho Valdés, El Rumbón (The Party)

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Chucho Valdés (*9th of October 1941), born Jesús Dionisio Valdés, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was born in Quivicán, Cuba. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pia…
Eddie Palmieri, Listen Here

Eddie Palmieri, Listen Here

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Eddie Palmieri (*15.Dec.1936), is a Puerto Rican-American pianist, bandleader and musician, best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms. The track "Listen Here" is a composition from Eddie Harris who creited this ma…

Kool & The Gang, Let's Go Dancing

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Kool & The Gang found a special sound at the unique intersection of jazz, r&b, funk and pop. Their music has been created by the same core of players for over thirty years: Robert "Kool" Bell, his brother Khalis Bayyan, their longtime friends Dennis…
Fong Naam, Mor lam, Wind In The Coconut In Trees

Fong Naam, Mor lam, Wind In The Coconut In Trees

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Fong Naam Mor lam is the dominant folk music of Thailand's north-eastern Isaan region, which has a mainly Lao population. It has much in common with luk thung, such as its focus on the life of the rural poor. It is characterized by rapid-fire, rhythm…
Fong Naam, I've Lost My Change To Be Your Husband

Fong Naam, I've Lost My Change To Be Your Husband

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Fong Naam By the mid-20th century Thai classical music was in a relatively stagnant state. The aggressively modernizing policies of Western-looking Thai politicians during the 1940s and '50s led to a widespread view of traditional Thai arts as being,…
Frank Zappa, Titties and Beer

Frank Zappa, Titties and Beer

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The dialog between Zappa and the Devil - listen it! It was the blackest night There was no moon in sight You know the stars ain't shinin' 'Cause the sky's too tight I heard the scarey wind I seen some ugly trees There was a werewolf honkin' 'Long th…

Manu Dibango, Pata Pata

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Nearly every body knows the song Pata Pata which is a original folk song from South Africa, Miriam Makeba*s (†10.11.2008) version Pata Pata is the most famous one. Here I post an other version from the group Manu Dibango. Manu Dibango, born Emmanuel…

Elvis Crespo, Tu

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Elvis Crespo is born on 30th of July 1971), and is a Puerto Rican-American Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Winner. Crespo who sings Merengue music was named "Elvis" after Elvis Presley.

Mongo Santamaria, Este Mambo

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Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría (*7th of April 1917 in Havana, Cuba – †1st of February, 2003) was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1…
Sierra Maestra, Marieta

Sierra Maestra, Marieta

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Sierra Maestra are a Cuban band started in 1976. They sought to revive 1920's classic son, which came from the mountain range on the east of Cuba, after which the band was named.

Duke of Iron, Calypso Original

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During my tour 1977 in the Caribbean Islands I met a Calypso composer with his funny music, listen carefully to this text! (Playback is a bit poor!) Cecil Anderson called the Duke of Iron Appearing on recordings, radio and in nightclubs, the Duke…

Mose Fan Fan & Somo Somo Ngobila, Hello Hello

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Insofar as Soukous has room to grow anymore, it rejects Paris hyperdrive for the confident understatement of the golden era, and too often the formal energy lags the second time around. Masterminded by a veteran Zairean guitarist who was once from Za…
Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Hotel Rwanda Umqombothi

Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Hotel Rwanda Umqombothi

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the score to the insistent movie "Hotel Rwanda"

Paco de Lucia, Larry Coryell & John McLaughlin, Herencia

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At long last an original, authenticated master of one of the concerts on the tour is available; anybody interested in jazz guitar has to hear and see this!. An other track from the album Castro Marin