Also bad taste in guitar solos.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 10 March 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
Ha. They went with Latin folkies and Tom Morello and a Native American as musical guests this time. Someone needs to interview Visitante, because he does most of the music programming I am pretty sure
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 March 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/a-chatty-and-relaxing-evening-with-juan-perro-at-the-howard-theatre/2014/03/10/81aaac88-a811-11e3-8a7b-c1c684e2671f_story.html?tid=gog_ent_article_grid
mellowed out Aging Latin alternative?
The man who performed Sunday night at the Howard Theatre was introduced as Santiago Auseron, formerly of Radio Futura, a new wave group voted in one poll “the best Spanish band of the last 25 years.” But the musician who took the stage was Juan Perro, a pop-jazz troubadour heavily influenced by Son Cubano, the 1930s style popularized in the United States five decades later by the Buena Vista Social Club.
Auseron and Perro are the same person, which could have confused the uninitiated listener. But there didn’t seem to be many of those in the small yet fervent audience, which cheered every aspect of the set.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.negrophonic.com/2014/dj-rupture-enero-2013-cumbia-mix/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 March 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Year old "cumbia not nuevo cumbia" cd now available online
Still haven't listened to that yet.
Friday April 4th in the DC area- El Gran Combo (de Puerto Rico) at the Howard; Bobby Sanabria at the Smithsonian; Tiempo Libre (Florida-based timba band) at Artisphere; and Jowell y Randy at the Palace
busy night
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
NY Times writer Jon Pareles:
March suddenly turned into Latin pop blockbuster season. By some coincidence, arena-filling stars who tend to take years between releases emerged almost simultaneously with new albums: Shakira and Juanes, who are both from Colombia, Enrique Iglesias from Spain and the reggaeton rapper Wisin from Puerto Rico. Romeo Santos, the Dominican bachata singer who was born in the Bronx and was Aventura’s lead singer for 17 years, beat the rush by releasing his second solo studio album in February.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/arts/music/new-music-by-shakira-juanes-enrique-iglesias-and-wisin.html
He seems to like Romeo Santos the most, followed by Juanes
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 March 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
I have been really feeling this lately:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsbjruwMeA
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Sunday, 30 March 2014 05:05 (ten years ago) link
Also this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8igEjpu4u8
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Sunday, 30 March 2014 05:23 (ten years ago) link
Started listening to the 1st thing Hurting posted (the drumming one) and got distracted. Need to get back to these later
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Still haven't gotten back to the videos yet, but I did see El Gran Combo again last night. Pianist and arranger Rafael Ithier who founded the Puerto Rican group in 1962, and is the only original member, just conducts this big band now, but the vocalists have been around for quite awhile and their vocals and awesome salsa meets motown choreography is excellent. Horn section and rhythm section were great too. My gf & my dancing was poor, but we had fun.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 5 April 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
Dear ILM,
Marc Anthony tickets in a 10,000 seat basketball arena went on sale today. Have never seen him live, but decided not to spend $73 a ticket each for me and gf to go. Am I being cheap?
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/armando-peraza-world-recognized-drummer-dies-at-89/2014/04/16/44ff6fe0-c5b1-11e3-8b9a-8e0977a24aeb_story.html
Cuban born percussionist with Dizzy for a bit and Santana for a long time
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 April 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
RIP, Cheo Feliciano, as posted on other threads.
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2014/04/20/dominican-singer-sonia-silvestre-dies--after-two-strokes-at-61/
Dominican ballad singer
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Spring/summer and the stars are touring:
Marc Anthony, Willie Colon, Don Omar, Arcangel, Gloria Trevi, Anthony Santos, El Tri, Yandel
Around 6 years ago when I saw Willie Colon they were billing the show as his farewell before retirement. It even said that on his own website. But I don't think he ever stopped touring.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Maybe they said he was "retiring," as in "shy."
― Kilgore Haggard Replica (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
Ah, that explains it.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
finally listened to those percussion-heavy items Hurting posted back in March. Nice enough
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:48 (ten years ago) link
And was listening to the new Jorge Drexler album this morning. Caetano Veloso and rapper Ana Tijoux guest on it. So far I like Drexler's pop-rock en espanol. Some nice vocal melodies
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
Was listening to some old-school Joe Cuba. I don't know it well, but I love that boogalu sound. I have read references to purists who snear at it, but I pay them no mind. Decades later such criticism seems even less relevant.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
x-post --Still liking that Jorge Drexler. It's more than just standard cliched Alt-latino pop, although it has some of those attributes.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 April 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
Which oldtimers show to choose:
7-18- KESTAFEST: GRUPO NICHE, JORGE CELEDON, EL GRAN COMBO, ORQUESTA GUAYACAN at Patriot Center (salsa)
7-18-Daddy Yankee at Echostage (reggaeton)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6077182/juan-formell-of-los-van-van-dead-at-71
A joke known in Havana and in Miami’s Cuban community may start making the rounds again, tinged with sadness this time, as fans and fellow artists mourn the loss of Juan Formell, the founder of Cuba’s 45-year-old dance band Los Van Van. The story goes that years from now, Fidel Castro comes back from the dead in search of his legacy. He finds the entry for his name in an encyclopedia: “Fidel Castro Ruz, Cuban politician in the era of Los Van Van.”
― curmudgeon, Friday, May 2, 2014 11:56 AM (0 seconds ago) Book
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 May 2014 11:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/07/310154191/juan-formell-remembering-cubas-musical-nonconformist
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 May 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Ned Sublette, author of Cuba and its Music, posted a bunch of Juan Formell rememberances, most en Espanol. He is/was a big deal for Cubans.
I have been listening to Formell's onetime pianist in Los Van Van, the nearly 70 year old guy known as Pupy. He and his big band Los Que Son Son are coming to my neck of the woods July 25th. They were a lot of fun the last time I saw them.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
Come back Rudiph, come back, this thread needs you
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 May 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
Hey, if any of you New Yorkers spend the bucks to see this gig at Lincoln Center (there may be 2 shows actually, Friday night & Saturday night), please come back here and tell us if its more than just standard Latin-jazz...Ok, thx
Nuevo Jazz Latino — convened under the auspices of Jazz at Lincoln Center's new A Side, B Side Series — presents an all-star ensemble of a decidedly Afro-Cuban orientation, whose members have written new works specifically for this freshly-assembled collaboration. Songwriters include Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra bassist Carlos Henriquez, a Bronx native, and four brilliant Cubans: pianist Elio Villafranca, saxophonist Yosvany Terry, drummer (and MacArthur Award winner) Dafnis Prieto, and conguero-vocalist Pedrito Martinez.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 May 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
I guess no one splurged for that
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
I still need to check out this tune N*d S*bl*tte highlighted a little while ago:
#1 on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs this week is "Bailando," a flamenco-reggaetón (!) number by Enrique Iglesias, Descemer Bueno and Alamar's own Gente de Zona. The success of the track would appear to owe much to the not-cheap videoclip, by Cuban director Alejandro Pérez, shot on the street in Santo Domingo and Havana, with the lovely Cuban flamenco-ballet dance troupe Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba (Lizt Alfonso is a person, and she choreographed).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 May 2014 13:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUsoVlDFqZg
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
Looks kinda like a musical, in a good way.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 03:36 (ten years ago) link
I'm not an Enrique Iglesias fan, but this isn't as bad as it could have been
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
#1 on the Latin hot 100 I believe
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
new Bio Ritmo album is out. Need to listen to this salsa group's latest effort some more
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 29 May 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.artinfo.com/blunotes/2014/05/dancing-with-eleggua-weekly-at-mintons-in-harlem/
Tuesday night Cuban music and jazz series in Harlem
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 31 May 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Ruben Blades has a tango album coming out next month - includes reworkings of "Pablo Pueblo" and "Pedro Navaja" and probably more old songs, too.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 31 May 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Ruben Blades going tango seems like a commentary on the state of Latin music; or on the other hand, he's always been diverse in his music taste, and he's no youngster anymore
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 June 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
But its a bachata world these days. Seems like every former member of Aventura is touring now-- Romeo Santos and more...
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 June 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
NY Times is covering Cuban jazz though--
new Yosvany Terry & Afro-Cuban Roots album is out.
They're busy gigging in NY
There's a free salsa and more Central Park Summerstage gig Saturday
with Roberto Roena y Su Apollo Sound. Also on the bill is NYC band La Mecánica Popular and a set by Little Louie Vega.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
On Friday the 13th old-school salseros Ismael Rivera Jr. and Ommy Cardona (Puerto Rican salsa vets ) are in my neck of the woods, sorta at the Palace, Woodbridge, VA
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Saturday the 14th for free is a pre-concert panel discussion about the Fania legacy from 4 to 5:30 p.m., at the Rumsey Playfield Summerstage venue (at "Overlook Hill"). panelists will be Ned Sublette, Joe Conzo, Sr. (author of Mambo Diablo: My Journey with Tito Puente) and Efraín Rozas, the Peruvian-born leader of La Mecánica Popular, who is also a professor at NYU.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Ned S*blette is also interested in another new Latin jazz album,
Caribbean Tinge, the new release by Elio Villafranca's Jass Syncopators
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Enrique Iglesias has a competitor for top of the Latin pop chart:
Now that school's out and party season has officially begun, newcomer
J Balvin's morning after anthem "6 a.m.," featuring Farruko, is a serious contender for summer favorite.
from billboard
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
Larry Harlow performing HOMMY: A Latin Opera on July 23 outdoors at Lincoln Center. http://lcoutofdoors.org/events/larry-harlows-hommy
― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 June 2014 01:37 (nine years ago) link
I saw Harlow once down here, but never doing Hommy. He's very energetic onstage
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 June 2014 04:20 (nine years ago) link
Watching my Baltimore Orioles on tv beating up on the Yankees in Yankee Stadium I noticed an ad on the wall there: Romeo Santos for 2 nights at Yankee Stadium. Wow, that's 50,000 a night for the bachata heartthrob. I assume there will be more security and the show will end in a more sedate fashion than that '70s Fania salsa gig there.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 June 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vuYeJ1gSSE
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
Louis Head in Albuquerque will present a three-hour tribute to the late Juan Formell tomorrow night (Friday) on KUNM, from 9 p.m. to midnight Eastern time
Ned Sublette and others will be guesting on this tribute to the late founder of Los Van Van
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 June 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
http://esquinarumbera.blogspot.com/2006/12/ernesto-gatel-el-gato-maravilloso.html
This Cuban rumba singer and percussionist recently moved to DC and he's gonna be performing Saturday in Anacostia (I will be out of town). I need to listen to him some
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 July 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link