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<title>Stan Getz</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[So unique was Stan Getz's saxophone sound that his solo on "Early Autumn" catapulted him to stardom in 1948 (his tone was so unique that he was nicknamed "The Sound" and even Coltrane wished he could play like him). Getz was at first influenced by Lester Young (and he was deservedly famous for the way he played ballads) but he quickly fell under bop's spell and his disarming versatility that enabled him to shine in Swing, Cool, or Avant-Garde jazz contexts. Just as his popularity was beginning to wane in the early 1960s, he scored massive hits with his Bossa Nova work, introducing the sultry South American-derived rhythms to a global audience. Getz remained on top for the rest of his life.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Astrud Gilberto</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Astrud's singularly pure and almost vibrato-less voice has the ability to send chills down your spine, whether she's singing in English or Portuguese. Bursting on the scene from nowhere in the mid-1960s, Gilberto won the world over (and a Grammy, as well) with her smooth rendition of "The Girl From Ipanema." Having previously been Joao Gilberto's translator, wife and assistant, Astrud caught the ear of Stan Getz with her impromptu home performances of Joao's (and Antonio Carlos Jobim's) laid-back Brazilian songs. Before moving on to Disco-influenced Funk in the '70s, Astrud's luscious vocals graced the arrangements and recordings of Jobim, Getz, Don Sebesky and Gil Evans, among others. Do yourself a favor: find a loved one and a bottle of wine and relax by the fire to some of the best Bossa Nova ever recorded.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Buena Vista Social Club</title>
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<category>Cuban</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:16:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This Cuban musicians' collective has played together for over half a century, and it shows. Stylistically, they span the entire spectrum of Afro-Cuban music. Deliciously slow bolero ballads and majestic danzones feature the swell of strings, while background vocals conveying messages of romance hide behind arrestingly beautiful melodies. Buena Vista Social Club's most influential style is the exuberant, polyrhythmic music known as son, which gave birth to both Mambo and Salsa. These upbeat numbers are full of infectious guitar licks, multilayered Afro-Cuban rhythms, soaring vocal melodies, and brash, Big Band-style horn parts.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Bebel Gilberto</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:13:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The daughter of innovative Bossa Nova guitarist Joao Gilberto and Brazilian singer Miucha, Bebel Gilberto definitely has strong musical genes. Graced with a clean, throaty voice that exudes a relaxed sexiness, she is equally comfortable singing in Portuguese and English. Early in her career, she worked with Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque (her uncle), David Byrne and Arto Lindsay. Lately, techno-sophisticated producer Suba has helped her develop an unpretentious modern sound based around Bossa Nova. Maintaining the primacy of the acoustic guitar in a jazz/bossa style, Gilberto and Suba add cool organ sounds, tight kit drumming, Brazilian percussion, funky basslines, and tasteful Soul horn hooks. Unobtrusive electronic treatments wander in and out, marking Gilberto's recordings with a hip, modern sensibility. Exquisitely warm sensuality well-suited for dance, romance, or ambiance.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Antonio Carlos Jobim</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:07:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A gentle force of nature, Antonio Carlos Jobim loved the way that Joao Gilberto tamed the Samba into Bossa Nova. By merging this with American jazz, European classical influences and his unique melodic gifts, Jobim became one of the few songwriters to rank alongside the likes of George Gershwin and Cole Porter. Even once you get past "The Girl of Ipanema" and discover such bittersweet gems as "Wave," "How Insensitive" and "Corcovado," only part of his canon is truly Bossa Nova. Jobim constantly experimented with song suites and impressionistic instrumentals and he never stopped evolving as an artist. He was a master arranger, but when not recording jazzy, stripped-down albums, he most often worked with Claus Ogerman, who supplied string backings for his improvisations. With his lilting piano and guitar styles and a charming "musician's" voice, Jobim the performer was almost as satisfying as Jobim the composer but many of his finest albums are actually collaborations. Besides the evergreen <i>Getz/Gilberto</i>, his recordings with Frank Sinatra and Elis Regina (entitled <i>Elis and Tom</i>) belong in every jazz and pop music collection. Jobim lived in the United States and Europe during much of Brazil's dark period of martial law but he spent the last couple of decades of his life fighting against the destruction of his homeland's natural wonders. Long a favorite of jazz musicians and vocalists, Antonio Carlos Jobim's music remains as popular as when he first sang about that passing beauty on the beach in Ipanema.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>CeU</title>
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<category>Brazilian Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:16:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest in a long line of sultry Brazilian singers, CeU enjoyed a big boost for her career when Starbucks made her the first international artist signed to their Hear Music Debut series in 2007. But don't let that put you off: her soulful delivery and command of Brazilian idioms make her a sultry addition to the stable of young Brazilian singers that includes Cibelle and Rosalia de Souza. Nominated for a Best New Artist Latin Grammy in 2006, CeU (born Maria do Ceu Whitaker Pocas) had been turning heads for years before that. Trained on the violao and in music theory in Brazil, CeU relocated to New York City for a few pivotal years after she completed her education. There she discovered everyone from Billie Holiday to Erykah Badu, and that unsanctioned education encouraged her to experiment with jazz and soul in her sound. A fortuitous connection with Antonio Pinto, who composed the score for <i>City of God</i>, also helped gain her entree into the Brazilian music world. Her self-titled debut was remarkably mature, never straying far from her roots (hints of samba are ever-present) but continually flirting with jazz, funk and soul.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Django Reinhardt</title>
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<category>Classic Swing</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jazz was forever changed when Django Reinhardt heard his first Louis Armstrong record. Reinhardt, a Belgian born Gypsy, revolutionized jazz guitar playing after losing the use of two fingers in a fire (try that at home, Joe Satriani). He invented the harmonically intense but joyous gypsy jazz style that captivated the public and influenced generations of musicians -- even Western Swing tips its hat to him. Americans like Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter were lining up to play with him, but violinist Stephane Grapelli was his greatest collaborator. They fed off of each other's solos and constantly inspired one another. Towards the end of his short life, he continued to experiment by embracing Bop and the electric guitar. Stephane Grapelli and such soundtracks as Steve Martin's <i>L.A. Story</i> kept his sound alive through out the decades. He was the first non-American jazz innovator and he remains the greatest.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Sergio Mendes</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:07:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the leading lights of bossa nova's crossover into America, Sergio
Mendes came of age in an era when Tom Jobim and JoÃÂ£o Gilberto were leading
Brazil towards international acclaim, and jazz musicians from around the
world were flocking to the South American country for the "new sound of
bossa nova." Heavily influenced by Jobim, Mendes was the best-selling
Brazilian artist in the United States by the mid-1960s. His music took a
turn toward light jazz, and Mendes explored numerous pop hits of the era in
that idiom, including the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" and Simon and
Garfunkle's "Scarborough Fair."
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Eliane Elias</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Cal Tjader</title>
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<category>Afro-Cuban Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cal Tjader, the mild-mannered Clark Kent of jazz, became Superman onstage. He combined cool West Coast jazz with Latin rhythms in such a way that pleased both general and jazz publics. Tjader began as a drummer and vibes player with Dave Brubeck and while in New York with George Shearing, he began going to Latin clubs. He sat in with Tito Puente in San Francisco and the audience reaction was so positive that they played to SRO crowds for weeks. Tjader's Mambo albums on Fantasy sold much better than his straight jazz records (e.g. his work with Stan Getz, as well as his own quartet dates). But regardless of the setting he was a fine soloist whose vibe work recalled that of Milt Jackson. In the mid-60s, Tjader began to experiment with his sound, delving into small group, Big Band and even Asian/Latin jazz. From this period, "Soul Sauce" remains one of only a handful of jazz hit singles to ever hit the marketplace. When he died during a concert in 1982, Cal Tjader was at the height of his powers
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Tito Puente</title>
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<category>Latin &amp; World Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:16:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Most of the rock generation is familiar with Tito Puente through Santana's cover of "Oye Como Va" and his appearance in <i>The Mambo Kings</i>. By venturing closer to the source, they will discover what Latin jazz fans have known for years: Puente's intoxicating mix of Big Band jazz and Latin music creates Mambo madness at its finest. Tito Puente is credited with fusing Cuban charangas with Big Band swing and Bop. Puente always had one eye on dance fans and indeed, his music puts the ghost of St. Vitus in your body. But his other eye was planted on jazz fans -- he loved arranging for composers such as Horace Silver and his soulmate Dizzy Gillespie. There are many similarities between Puente and Diz's various big bands -- chief among them the spirit of global brotherhood that they celebrate. But Tito Puente never let his jazz side distract from his music's mass popularity; when the Big Band era was long gone, Puente not only kept his band together but saw it thrive. With more than a hundred albums to his credit, at least one or two should be a part of every collection.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Dizzy Gillespie</title>
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<category>Bop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:49:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Everything about Dizzy Gillespie was original -- his bullfrog cheeks, his bent trumpet, his music, his soul. Along with Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie spearheaded the revolutionary Bop movement of the '40s. Both played with intense sophistication, but while Bird sax soundalikes started coming out of the woodwork, Dizzy trumpet clones were few and far between. Both giants became a Bop University of sorts, teaching others and spreading the word of the new jazz. Gillespie's unique combination of musical ideas, range, curiosity and, best of all, his joy of life could not be duplicated. Indeed, much like his forebear Louis Armstrong, Diz was a showman and an entertainer who captivated a wide audience. Gillespie's big bands and small groups brought Bop, Bossa Nova, and Afro-Cuban rhythms to the world. Gillespie's influence looms long and large over the course of Jazz history.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Seu Jorge</title>
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<category>Brazilian Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:54:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This gruff-voiced carioca (resident of Rio de Janeiro) first made international waves in 2002's <I>City Of God</I>, playing the vaguely terrifying gangster Knockout Ned. But he'd seduced Brazilians in an earlier role: as part of pop group Farofa Carioca who had a giant hit in 1998 with "Moro no Brasil" ("I Live in Brazil"). Born Jorge Mario da Silva on June 8th, 1970, Seu Jorge captured audiences' imagination with his life story as well his talent. He grew up in rough Rio favelas, singing and playing in local bars as a teenager and trying -- and not always succeeding -- to stay out of trouble. But his dreams were cut short when his brother Vitorio was shot, and his family was made homeless. Jorge lived on the streets for three years before he lucked into a singing gig and later into theatrical work that led to the formation of Farofa Carioca. After his role in <I>City Of God</I>, Jorge landed a role in Wes Anderson's <I>The Life Aquatic</I>, singing amazing covers of David Bowie classics in Portuguese. His first stateside release, <I>Cru</I>, came out in late 2005.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Charlie Byrd</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Charlie Byrd played jazz guitar with Django Reinhardt during his World War II army stint in France prior to studying classical music with Andres Segovia. He then applied these classical techniques to jazz for a uniquely academic approach to the instrument. In 1961, he toured Brazil, turning Stan Getz on to that country's swaying Bossa Nova rhythms. The album they recorded together, <I>Jazz Samba</I>, was an instant smash, ultimately setting off the Bossa Nova craze in the U.S. Byrd's solo albums in the '60s often straddle the fence between jazz and easy listening, but his technique always dazzles. In the '80s, he recorded fine albums with his fellow classical-jazz guitarist, Laurindo Almeida.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Armik</title>
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<category>Flamenco/Fado</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:49:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Armik has been playing professionally since he was twelve, performing jazz and Flamenco with ease and flair. His guitar playing is fresh and filled with technical fire.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Al DiMeola</title>
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<category>Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:12:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Boosting metronome sales everywhere, DiMeola sent thousands of guitarists to the woodshed in the '70s to practice their muted speed picking and otherwise hone their chops. Though his early success was largely due to his faster than light plectrum skills, DiMeola has proven over the years to be quite an improviser in many genres. In Chick Corea's <i>Return to Forever</i> he lit up the Fusion world, racing through changes with a rock star's ego and distortion alongside a jazz musician's technique and improvisational skills. Picking up the acoustic guitar more often proved to be artistically beneficial, especially in his blazing neo-Flamenco trio with John McLaughlin and Paco De Lucia. The past decade or so has found DiMeola de-emphasizing his string-slinging for a more compositional approach, drawing on South American, Middle Eastern, and Spanish flavors.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>John McLaughlin</title>
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<category>Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:56:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not many people have a Miles Davis track named after them, but guitarist John McLaughlin earned that honor for his raw jazz-based soloing which held together Davis' monumental <I>Bitches Brew</I>. McLaughlin's versatility and stylistic mastery is unmatched; he's worn many hats through the years, helping to invent Fusion with his combination of jazz virtuosity and blistering rock 'n' roll aggression. His playing is layered and tasteful, floating from full speed improvisation to open-sounding chords and chameleon-like variations. He began as a session player in England, jamming with Clapton, Hendrix and Jimmy Page, and worked his way up to a brilliant Post Bop debut <I>Extrapolation</I>. McLaughlin moved on to join Tony Williams' Lifetime and Miles Davis' bands, before founding the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early '70s. Dissatisfied with the limitations of playing a single genre, McLaughlin joined tabla master Zakir Hussain to form Shakti, an innovative and exceptional combination of Indian classical music and jazz. His intense, fruitful collaborations are also numerous: over the years McLaughlin has recorded outstanding albums with Carlos Santana, Buddy Miles, Billy Cobham, Paco De Lucia and Al Dimeola, and many more.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Stephane Grappelli</title>
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<category>Swing</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:40:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[To most of the public, Stephane Grappelli defines jazz violin. This French maverick met the perfect foil when he teamed up with Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s and '40s. After Django's death, Grappelli spent the '50s and '60s as a respected European musician before re-emerging as a global superstar in the 1970s. Grappelli has made stellar recordings with such European bopsters as Michel Legrand and George Shearing and such Americans as Oscar Peterson and McCoy Tyner. He made beautiful music that lived completely out of time, ignoring fads and trends without succumbing to gilded nostalgia. When he died in 1997, nobody thought of him as a great French jazz musician -- he was remembered as a gifted jazz musician, period, who was a tireless musical ambassador for the music that he never stopped loving.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Joao Gilberto</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:06:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The consensus seems to be that if Antonio Carlos Jobim created Bossa Nova,
Joao Gilberto created Bossa Nova as we know it. Known for his flat and nasal
- but always in tune - singing, Gilberto's cool, intimate style reverberates
to this day: listen to contemporary Bossa Nova singers like Celso Fonseca
and Cibelle, and you'll hear echoes of Gilberto. His story is no less
entrancing than his music: obsessed with music from an early age, he sought
his fortune as a singer and then fell into a ten-year depression that led to
an itinerant, pot-smoking lifestyle. If he hadn't pulled out of the rut,
Bossa Nova would be very different. But he did pull out, and decided to move
away from that den of vice, Rio. Newly sober, Gilberto proceeded to develop
his trademark style - reportedly in his sister's bathroom - and drew growing
crowds to clubs in Porto Alegre. It was just a matter of time before Tom
Jobim took notice, and Gilberto was traveling to the United States for the
most fruitful collaborations of his career - with American saxophonist Stan
Getz. Their signature collaboration "Getz/Gilberto" is a perennial
bestseller, and Joao's wife Astrid sang the definitive version of
uber-classic "The Girl From Ipanema."
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Richard Stoltzman</title>
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<category>Swing Revival</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Stoltzman keeps the torch of early Swing burning bright, playing sunny clarinet lines in the tradition of Benny Goodman. As if that weren't enough, he also dabbles in Latin Jazz and contemplative new age.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Ray Barretto</title>
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<category>Latin &amp; World Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mr. Hardhands himself, Barretto is perhaps the most prolific conga player ever, helping to make the instrument a needed tool for the jazz ensemble's arsenal. As an accompanist, Barretto forges the most solid grooves, repeating a hard-slapping pattern over and over with the utmost rhythmic perfection -- but given a chance to fill or solo, he introduces exciting new rhythms and syncopation to fire up a track. His session work includes dates with Wes Montgomery, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie and Cannonball Adderley, among many others. He's also in top form as a Latin player -- for a while he led the masterful Salsa of Fania All-Stars, injecting rock and soul elements. This might be what makes him so special: Barretto is never afraid to draw on eclectic sources. In a sense, he has always been the one to make the unconventional the norm.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Herbie Mann</title>
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<category>Crossover Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The two words jazz flute usually conjure up an image of the eternally whiskered Herbie Mann. At first a disciple of the cool school, Mann switched from sax to flute in the late 50s and turned heads with his accessible, swinging Bop. His complex rhythmic sense coupled with his understanding of harmony lines came to fruition in the early 60s when Mann took up Afro-Cuban and Bossa Nova music to massive success as he recorded with the likes of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Willie Bobo and, in a change of pace, Bill Evans. His albums from this period mesh with both solitary listening and parties (<i>Memphis Underground</i> may be his biggest album). In the 70s, he switched gears again and put out a series of Fusion and pop/reggae/Disco albums. When the hits finally stopped, Mann returned to mainstream jazz but continued to use his position to explore all avenues of world music until he passed away in 2004.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>BossaCucaNova</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:20:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[New and classic Bossa Nova remixed in part by the son of lesser-known Bossa Nova great Roberto Menescal. These tunes crackle with coolly contained energy, swinging with the help of Trip-Hop beats, bright Latin guitar work, and intoxicating rhythms.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Perez Prado</title>
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<category>Mambo</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The true Mambo King, Perez Prado helped invent the genre he worked in by fusing American Big Band Jazz with Afro-Cuban rhythms. In the current retro-Lounge fad, Prado is remembered as a kind of hip Lawrence Welk, but his music is full of real passion and verve. Even though he had a couple of number one hits during the 1950s, he has always been respected more by musicians than the general public. The man deserves your respect, though, and the best way to show it to him is to throw on a puffy shirt and mambo till dawn.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Celso Fonseca</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:54:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A lot of music gets dubbed the dubious distinction of being timeless, but if any genre truly deserves to be timeless, it's Bossa Nova. Brazil's Celso Fonseca, perennial sideman, songwriter and sometime singer, is keeping Bossa Nova fresh for a new generation. Fonseca is no kid; he's played with almost everyone who counts: Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, and Chico Buarque, among others. That illustrious pedigree just signals his quality - it's really his delicate vocalizations and precise, humid arrangements that will win you over.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Poncho Sanchez</title>
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<category>Afro-Cuban Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Poncho Sanchez's long-standing Latin jazz band has certainly made an indelible mark over its lengthy career. He got his start with Cal Tjader, and he has inherited the vibist's Latin swing by mixing Salsa and Soul into his musical pot.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Hugh Masekela</title>
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<category>Latin &amp; World Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Born in apartheid-era South Africa in 1939, Masekela studied the piano, enjoying American jazz artists like Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington. The Bix Beiderbecke-inspired movie <i>Young Man With a Horn</i> convinced Masekela to take up the trumpet. Archbishop Trevor Huddleston gave him his first trumpet, and Masekela began working with dance bands including Zakes Nkosi's and Ntemi Piliso's. After the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, Masekela fled to England, where Yehudi Menuhin and others found him a place in a music school. Miriam Makeba, his former wife, then helped him make the move to New York, introducing him to Harry Belafonte and Dizzy Gillespie. Masekela made a splash in the mid-'60s, but it wasn't until 1968's <I>Promise of a Future</i> that he had a monster hit with "Grazing in the Grass." Though known for pop-oriented work, his trumpet-playing ranks among the best of the 20th century. (He's no slouch as a singer, either.) Masekela went on to explore Nigerian music, Afrobeat and traditional South African music, and he worked on the musical <I>Sarafina</i> with Mbongeni Ngema. He returned to South Africa after Nelson Mandela's release and has lived and recorded there since.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Alex de Grassi &amp; Quique Cruz</title>
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<category>New Age Acoustic</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:28:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though they come from different hemispheres and distant musical realms, these two musicians converge on a metaphysical plane to produce brilliant music together. Recognized as one of the greatest fingerstyle steel-string guitar players, Alex de Grassi has recorded highly acclaimed records for new age label Windham Hill. On the other side of this musical equation, Chile native Quique Cruz plays the charango (a petite guitar), as well as folkloric drums, flutes and panpipes. The duo's original compositions are based on Andean rhythms transformed with a jazz swing or blues shuffle. The ensemble, which includes unobtrusive (yet precise) drumming, brushed cymbals, acoustic bass and superb piano work courtesy of Michael Bluestein, coalesces the strings and flutes of de Grassi and Cruz with subtlety and grace. As if in service of greater form, the musicians seem to leave their egos aside as they respond to one another with seriousness, joy and jazz-like spontaneity.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Benedetti &amp; Svoboda</title>
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<category>Flamenco/Fado</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:21:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This classically trained duo from San Diego tour the world playing their beautiful, flamenco-style music. Blessed with superior technique and an elegant sense of dynamics, Benedetti and Svoboda are adept at teasing the emotions of the listener.]]></description>
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<title>Willie Colon</title>
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<category>Salsa</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:48:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Willie Colon was there during the 1960s when Salsa, as it eventually became known, was in its developing stages. As part of a young generation of "Nuyoricans" (Puerto Ricans from New York City) along with Eddie Palmieri and Ray Baretto, he helped create this new, vibrant form of music based on the Cuban "conjunto" sound. As a trombone player, he shaped the gritty, aggressive sound of the brass that characterized the New York sound. His first record introduced him to the scene as "El Malo" (the bad one) -- a reputation he often lived up to -- while he in turn introduced to the public two of the greatest singers in Salsa history: Hector Lavoe and Ruben Blades. Rhythmically, Colon's music has always been rooted in the Cuban clave beat, full of up-front timbales and punctuating horns that build tension as the cowbell kicks in. Part of his everlasting appeal comes from lyrics that revel in street culture and the gangster image he projects; however, he must be credited with mixing Harlem soul and jazz into his dangerous Salsa.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Mongo Santamaria</title>
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<category>Latin &amp; World Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:33:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Revered as the best conga player in the world, Mongo Santamaria debuted in America as part of Perez Prado's orchestra in the 1950s. According to some, his frenetic playing bordered on being a religious experience. When Latin Jazz fever hit the West Coast in the mid-'50s, Santamaria jumped ship from Tito Puente's band to work with Cal Tjader. His own solo records exuded a brand of hot jazz, soul and Afro-Cuban rhythms as seen on the now standard <i>Afro Blue</i> as well as his 1963 hit version of <i>Watermelon Man</i>. Successful in bringing traditional Cuban instrumentation to a popular jazz format, Mongo Santamaria is still in fine form today (as seen on 1995's <i>Mongo Returns</i>). Those conga solos will blow your mind.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Larry Coryell</title>
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<category>Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In many ways, Coryell and fellow guitarist John McLaughlin have had parallel careers, helping to found the Jazz Rock and Fusion genres in the late '60s and early '70s, before moving on to straight-ahead jazz and World Fusion collaborations. Coryell has proven his versatility on distorted electric, hollowbody, acoustic, and even twelve-string guitar, playing with fiery technique and a raw, cutting tone. Perhaps it was the musicians with whom he worked that helped drive his experimental improvisations. McLaughlin, Miroslav Vitous, John Scofield, Bernard Purdie, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and Jack DeJohnette all brought intense rhythmic and/or harmonic ideas to the table, but Coryell's pioneering ideas surely symbiotically influenced them as well. The albums <I>Spaces</I> and <I>Larry Coryell's 11th House</I> are seminal Fusion albums on which Coryell experiments with new sounds and ways of breaking down jazz's boundaries.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Pat Martino</title>
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<category>Post Bop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:07:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Brilliant performer started his career playing with Soul Jazz icons Willis 'Gator Tail' Jackson, Jack McDuff and Don Patterson. Philadelphia resident Martino has stretched the boundaries of jazz guitar by coming up with innovative theories and ways of playing that direct his fluid, cerebral lines. Talking with John Coltrane over hot chocolate at the age of 14 helped inspire Martino, who forged a rhythmically solid style that astounds the listener with endless streams of chromatic notes. He's gone on to include world and electronic influences in his bebop oriented playing, consistently delivering dynamic runs over whichever style he chooses to explore. In the early 1980s Martino lost much of his memory due to a brain aneurysm. He recovered to his original form listening to his old records and relearning the guitar.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Eddie Palmieri</title>
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<category>Salsa</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 1 Sep 2009 02:38:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Luiz Bonfa</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Legendary Brazilian guitarist Luiz Bonfa is a key progenitor to the Bossa Nova movement. After a stint playing clubs in Rio de Janeiro, he migrated to New York in the late 1950s, where he worked as a guitarist and composer with Stan Getz (among others). Having worked as a composer for Brazilian films, he was asked to contribute to the 1959 soundtrack for <I>Black Orpheus</I>, for which he wrote the immortal theme song "Manha de Carnaval." In great demand as both a composer and guitarist due to his exceptionally precise playing, he even wrote a song for Elvis Presley. Over the years, he has recorded more than thirty records -- most of which by 1973. Although obscured by the likes of fellow countrymen and colleagues Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, his contribution to Brazilian jazz -- and Bossa Nova is particular -- is paramount.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Gato Barbieri</title>
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<category>Crossover Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:42:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Ibrahim Ferrer</title>
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<category>Cuban</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:54:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ibrahim Ferrer was a 72-year-old Cuban crooner who came out of retirement to embrace international stardom. His 1999 solo debut found him fronting the spectacular musicians' collective, Buena Vista Social Club. Though the band plays mostly traditional Cuban dances, they've been known to explore hybrid forms as well -- on some tracks, for example, an electric guitar decorates a marriage of piano jazz and stately danzon rhythm. Ferrer's voice is full of rich timbres and elegant vibrato, carrying within it deep emotion that always surfaces, even in his most understated moments. Sadly, Ferrer passed away in a Havana hospital on August 6, 2005, at age 78, marking the end of an era for many of his fans and collaborators. Though he died three weeks before the scheduled end of the recording session, Ferrer's posthumous album of boleros, <i>Mi Sueno</i>, was released in April, 2007. To complete the album, producers used demos of his voice on several tracks, though that didn't seem to affect the quality of the critically acclaimed release.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Tin Hat Trio</title>
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<category>Avant Garde Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:58:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli brought in a talented accordion player for their sessions and shared a bottle with Tom Waits and Astor Piazzolla, you'd still only have a part of the vibrant creativity embodied by Tin Hat Trio. Soaring violin melodies evoke European Gypsy traditions (and classical training), while jazzy guitar slips from background to forefront, with colorful melodies and syncopated rhythms set to the old-world drones of various pump-organs, toy pianos and accordion. They've lent their talents to many -- assisting artists such as Tom Waits, guitarist Bill Frisell and minimalist Philip Glass -- adding their distinct, ethnic, chamber style to every session. Rarely can three virtuosos come together for such musically unselfish and utterly innovative sounds.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:27:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Nestor Torres</title>
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<category>Afro-Cuban Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:12:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This Puerto Rican flautist cut his teeth playing with Cuban charanga orchestras in New York, where his sensational improvisations and suave tone established his golden reputation. Torres relocated to Miami and began a crossover career playing Smooth Jazz, occasionally letting the Latin groove take over.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Gal Costa</title>
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<category>Tropicalia</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:14:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gal Costa's sultry, sensual voice has been a regular feature in the Brazilian hit parade for four decades. This Bahia native inherited an appreciation of Afro-Brazilian music to match with her natural affinity for the Bossa Nova. A radical child of the 1960s, her collaborations with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil helped make her a star; while they were political exiles in London, she recorded their thinly-veiled criticisms of the Brazilian military government. Whether interpreting an old Samba or Bossa Nova or experimenting with rock and Soul, she has always maintained her distinct voice and steamy passion. Furthermore, she has continually displayed an air of mystery from her beginnings as the gypsy-esque free spirit to her more dignified (albeit seductive), mature image. And finally, there has always been Costa's voice, unmistakable and alluring.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Willie Bobo</title>
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<category>Latin Soul</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The sideman of all sidemen, Willie Bobo emerged in the 1950s as a percussionist with Tito Puente's band. After recording with such Latin hitmakers as Perez Prado and Mongo Santamaria, he began putting out his own records  a mix of Funk, soul and Latin grooves infused into the hits of the day. Thick with horns, congas, and timbales, records like <I>Juicy</I> continue to be perennial favorites at after hours haunts and smoky nightclubs.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Willie Rosario</title>
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<category>Salsa</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:49:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Carlos Barbosa-Lima</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 5 Sep 2009 11:20:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Acoustic guitar virtuoso plays everything from classical composers to Gershwin and Brazilian music precisely and passionately. Also respected as a jazz guitarist, Barbosa-Lima has spent much of his life teaching and has authored a number of books on technique.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Walter Wanderley</title>
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<category>Vintage Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:54:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[No matter what kind of mood you're in, it's hard to keep a straight face when confronted with the sounds of Walter Wanderly's obliviously chipper organ -- his staccato Hammond tones and occasional synth dabblings remain, in the most technical sense of the word, "cheesy," though not necessarily in a negative sense. Specializing in lightly jazzy reworkings of Samba and Bossa Nova numbers, Wanderly scored his biggest hit with "Summer Samba" (1966), though he covered all the usual bases elsewhere ("The Girl From Ipanema," "Desafinado," "Brazil," etc.). He recorded prolifically in the late '60s, only to essentially drop off the map before the '90s lounge revival resurrected interest in his work.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Paul Winter</title>
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<category>World Fusion</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:48:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Caribbean Jazz Project</title>
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<category>Latin &amp; World Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:10:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Trolling the Caribbean at large for musical inspiration, this project features steel pan virtuoso Andy Narrell, vibe/marimba maestro Dave Samuels and renowned Cuban sax/clarinet player Paquito D'Rivera. They team up with a monster rhythm section to make a sophisticated yet loose hybrid of jazz, Calypso, and Latin styles.
- Robert Leaver]]></description>
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<title>Afro-Cuban All Stars</title>
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<category>Afro-Cuban Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:41:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This ad hoc group really is an all-star collaboration, including the likes of Eliades Ochoa, Ruben Gonzalez, Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabel, Barbarito Torres and Pio Levya (among many others) and directed by Sierra Maestra's reigning mastermind Juan de Marcos Gonzalez. They play a hyped-up version of Cuban son that is to the Buena Vista Social Club what Viagra is to aspirin, forsaking piquant old-timeyness for big band power. Released in 1997, <I>A Todo Cuba Le Gusta</I> put them on the international map.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Laurindo Almeida</title>
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<category>Bossa Nova</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:01:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida influenced jazz and popular music far beyond his name recognition in the general public. He brought updated Spanish Classical and Latin American folk guitar to the public's ear with a fluid, swinging style. His 1953 collaboration with Bud Shank combined West Coast Cool with Brazilian Samba and is cited by Antonio Carlos Jobim as a major influence in the development of Bossa Nova. Almeida is a master collaborator, but the trio format allows him to take center stage and stay there. He's so good that he breathes new life into standards and traditional Sambas, and even makes the soggy soft rock of "Up Where We Belong" sound good.]]></description>
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<title>Elis Regina</title>
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<category>Brazilian Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:43:10 -0700</pubDate>
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