LATIN MUSIC YOU'D SHARE

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In Brazil the Rufous-collared sparrow commonly chirps and is called the "Tico-tico" in Portuguese. In 1945 Carmen Miranda recreated it's liveliness in the charming song "Tico tico" (originally titled "Tico-tico No Fubá").

 

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A taste of the unstintingly exciting Carnival music from Rio de Janeiro is heard in the song "AURORA DO POVO BRASILEIRO" by the Samba School Association member Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba ("G.R.E.S.") Beija-Flor ("humming bird") of Rio's Nilópolis sector. It began as local carnival celebrants taking their name from an old Rio ranch (Rancho Beija-Flor de Marquês de Valença). After registering (1953) in the Samaba Schools Confederation they got to parade with other lesser (2nd tier) samba schools at the 1954 carnival. By the mid-1970s they were getting recognition having moved into top tier parading status and awarded (1977) for their costumes (pictured above) the prize for "Vovó e o Rei da Saturnália na Corte Egipciana"; followed over the years by other awards. In this recording, like most others made of G.R.E.S. for decades, the singer is Luiz Antônio Feliciano Marcondes (born 1949).

 

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Colette Michaan (b.1957) from New York City has Egyptian-Syrian heritage and plays fantastic Latin Music like this instrumental "Historia de Un Amor".

 

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Good example of guitarist Ray Obiedo (b.1952) instrumental style =

 

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Fun recording from 2013; the band "La -33" pictured below outside their 33rd Street, Bogotá,Colombia original rehearsal house released their 1st album in 2004.

 

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Post music by Latin musicians you'd like to share. If have time add some comment(s) others might find interesting without feeling compelled to provide lyrics or translations into English.

Cheeze&Crackers, @Soandso,

I am this late (8pgs) to your worthy thread and it seems that I have my work cut-out for at least a few days, sampling all of the suggestions.
Although you got my 'Like' for this post, I don't know if I should thank you, just yet!

Does "Island" music belong under the umbrella of "Latin" genre?

 

[Soandso]

…Does "Island" music belong under the umbrella of "Latin" genre?

I would say so since there is a genre popularly called Latin American Reggae and I'm familiar in the last 30 years with hearing reggaetón music. The screen shots below are compiled from the website heading shown.

 

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Flutist Jessica Valiente's ensemble Los Más Valientes recorded the cruisin' AWIJEE" in 2022.

 

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Prudencio Mario Bauzá Cárdenas (1911-1993; seen above) was only 16 years old when as a member of a Cuban ensemble toured NewYork City and as he recalled : "I fell in love with jazz then." By the early 1930s he was lead trumpet for Chick Webb and later that decade Cab Calloway hired him. [It was Mario Bauzá who befriended a younger Dizzy Gillespie getting Calloway to hire him, rooming together and teaching the nuances of Cuban music's "clave" (described previously) in time interpreted by "Dizzy" as mainstream Latin jazz.] By 1940 Mario Bauzá teamed up with fellow future legend "Machito" to form an Afro-Cuban band.

"CUBANOLA" was released (1986) when Mario Bauzá was 75 years old and his cameo solo is at 3:07-3:20; the lead brass playing is by either Claudio Rodtiti or Charles Camilleri. Undeniably virtuoso piano work driving the song is by the Argentinian Jorge Dalto (1948-1987) pictured below at a keyboard. Paquito D'Rivera played the saxophone. The highly influential conga player is Carlos "Patato" Valdés Galán (1926-2007) also pictured below. And the remarkable flute player is the well respected José Fajardo (1919-2001) pictured last [as her uncle he guided the launch to superstardom of Gloria Estefan - she is not the dancer photographed alongside Fajardo].

 

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"TANGO PARA CUERDAS" (2018 ) led by Argentinian bassist Pablo Aslan (pictured below) accompanied by a string quartet featuring on cello Gloria Pankaeva, on viola Adrián Felizia along with the 2 violinists Pablo Saraví and Hermán Briático is delightfully authentic.

 

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Bonus Tango for today = "TANGUAJIRA" by the same above strings ensemble only this time with a clarinet ably played by the renown Paquito D'Rivera.