LATIN MUSIC YOU'D SHARE

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So there's Post-CUMBIA music coming out of Mexico now long after Cumbia became very popular there. Cumbia traces to Colombia's Caribbean side with originally just drums, a "maraca" rattle and extra long hollow cardón cactus flutes using a feather quill for the reed set into a mouthpiece fashioned out of bees wax stiffened with powdered wood charcoal. There'd be 2 flutist with one playing melody and the other harmonizing. Cumbia spread popularly since 1930s and I really liked the standard Mexican Cumbia a girlfriend used to play.

It is also a distinct dance style - the music and the dance, obviously, grew up together, with the two influencing each other...

 

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Candido's style worked well with lots of other musician's styles. He did some good jazz hey-day crossover recordings like these 2 (1956) with saxophonist Al Cohn and Joe Puma on guitar.

 

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I'll just post my PONCHO SANCHEZ playlist here; which likewise includes "Bésame Mama." It was more than 15 years ago I had the good fortune to see him perform on an outdoor stage.

 

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Liliana Saumet is styled as an "electro-cumbia" singer. She had a cumbia infused grandfather Manuel who had his own band "Saumet Y Sus Plateños" (refers to the Rió de La Plata area dwellers).

 

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Honorable mention:

 

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Honorable mention:

Tito Puente was named Ernesto Antonio Puente, Hijo (junior) after his father so they called him Ernestito (affectionately little Ernest) which morphed into his childhood nickname of "Tito." Below I'll post my own Tito Puente songs' playlist of what I consider musically notable works culled from his vast catalogue of recordings; including the last with jazz legend Woody Herman. Pardon any repeats shown (I noticed "Black Brothers" duplicated).

 

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I didn't see this one...

 

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Dig this band

 

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A little lite music

 

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I love these Playing For Change versions... This one is awesome. Music is a universal language.

 

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Baden Powell - Tristeza

 

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Lydia Mendoza - Mal Hombre

 

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Luiz Bonfa - Manha de Carnaval

 

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Rosinha de Valença‬ - Consolação‬

 

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Yamandu Costa - Samba Pro Rapha

 

[Soandso]

I love these Playing For Change versions... This one is awesome. Music is a universal language.

There's a nice OYE CÓMO VA live recording from the album "Sacred Fire" (1993) covering a Santana tour of South America. The song was originally a cha-cha-chá dance tune Cuban "Tito" Puente wrote.

Mexican born guitar playing brothers Carlos Humberto Santana Barraagán (born 1947) and Guillermo Jorge Santana Barragán (1951-2020) performed with among others the famous Cuban drummer Wilfredo De Los Reyes III (1933-2025) pictured below.

Among the ensemble was USA born conga player Raul Rekow (1954-2015) who was with Santana's bands all the way from 1976 to 2013 until 2 years before his passing away; seen pictured below. Also appearing playing the timbales drums was Karl Perrazo. For those intrigued by latin percussion these 2 experts (Renkow and Perrazo) in 2003 recorded together a record titled "JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE PARK".

 

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Luiz Bonfa - Manha de Carnaval

"The King of Bossa Nova" Brazil's Luiz Floriano Bonfá (1922-2001) started studying classical guitar at age 11 and recording since 1955 would write the song (not lyrics) "Manhã de Carnaval"used in the now classic (1959) film "ORFEU NEGRO" ("Black Orpheus"). He already had made 16 or 17 records by the time (1963) he teamed up writing the music recorded with USA jazz musician Stan Getz which extended his renown to USA listeners. At that time the USA musicians popularly called his style of music "Jazz Samba". Below are 2 album covers both from 1963.

 

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Baden Powell - Tristeza

Another interesting song by Brazil's Baden Powell de Aquino (1937-2000) is "Feitinha Pro Poeta". What became known as Bossa Nova according to Flora Purim (as I elsewhere quoted) in part involved "avant-garde poets." And in Brazil Vinícius de Moraes (1913-1980) was nicknamed "The Poet" who is specifically named in this Baden Powell song's lyrics shown all the way down below.

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Rosinha de Valença‬ - Consolação‬

Rosinha was born Maria Rosa (affectionately "Rosinha" or "Little Rose") Canelas (1941-2004) and made 15 record albums earning enough acclaim to get included in a handful of Brazilian songs' compilation albums. Interestingly the song linked above was written by Baden Powell and "The Poet" Vinícius de Moraes recently discussed in comment #59 as noticeable on the following screenshot of her 1st (1963) album "APRESENTANDO."

Her captivating flute player on the above song Jose Ferreira Borges Da Silva was popularly known as "Jorginho da Flauta". For new fans after hearing him now he's featured, as simply "Jorginho", on 6 songs of another Brazilian album titled "NA CADÊNCIA DO SAMBA".