This is a ripping split of proto-Acid Jazz! The first band, Fusión, was a jazz fusion band out of Chile, while Carlos Franzetti gained some fame in Argentina. Both funk out the song Dedos wonderfully.
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El Palmas Records presents a charming band out of Venezuela called Moncho y su Banda, led by Ramón Urbina, who combine salsa, cumbia and chucuchu into a joyous, smoldering disc of fine latin jazz.
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Homero “Hommy” Sanz was a percussionist and bandleader from Puerto Rico who produced albums full of guaguancó, bolero and boogaloo. The album is a fine example of what was tearing up Puerto Rican airwaves during the 1960s and 1970s. A killer set.
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Kalí Rodriguez-Peña is a Cuban-American trumpeter who is one of the leading lights of New York’s modern salsa scene. Salsa isn’t a genre that normally gets caught by my radar, but recently I’ve had the chance to explore the works of artists like Johnny Colón, Hector Lavoe and Willie Colón, so finding non-commercial salsa has been a real treat. The album is dark for Cuban music, and I love the energy it emits. It’s far more smoky and the music references Rodriguez-Peña’s heroes like Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard. Brilliant.
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Known and celebrated for his contributions to the boogaloo sounds of the 1960’s, Johnny Colon is an American musician born in ‘El Barrio’ New York … SONG OF THE DAY Johnny Colon – Merecumbe
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Spanish imprint El Palmas Music has released this compilation of music from Venezuela that covers reggae, salsa, soul, cumbia and joropo music. There are two tracks available to listen to until the release date of May 14, 2021, but judging by these, this compilation will be pretty damn good. From their Bandcamp page: El Palmas and El Dragón Criollo once again leave their skin immersing themselves in the musical archives of the” Venezuelan Saudi ”, today almost buried in oblivion, for the defense of prodigious works whose brilliance did not have time to be fully assimilated in the middle from…