Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2022: Reggaeton, Salsa, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Bachata, Merengue, Urbano and more Latinx

My daughter loves "surface pressure"... that "Pressure like a drip, drip, drip that'll never stop, whoa
Pressure that'll tip, tip, tip 'till you just go pop, whoa" bit has been stuck in my head far more than I'd like it to, it's super addictive.

doesn't help that I've been under a lot of stress this past month.

My kid is old now so am out of the loop for this Disney Miranda stuff. Both Formulaic and ear wormy.

A Celebration of Hector "Tito" Matos
Friday, March 25, 2022
8:00PM EDT hostos center
Main Theater
Bronx, NY
Para Un Panderetero Mayor
Hector “Tito” Matos

He’s the plena percussionist and activist who died young recently

Luminaries of Viento de Agua and Los Pleneros de la 21 will be featured, along with a special presentation by La Maquina Insular. Performances by Alex "Apolo" Ayala, Nelson Matthew González, Desmar Guevara, Juan Gutiérrez, Norka Nadal, Ricardo Pons, Erick Noel Rosado, Alberto Toro, Víctor Vélez

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Another show at Hostos in Bronx

Grammy Award-winning Arturo O’Farrill and the 18-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra perform an exhilarating program to commemorate the life and music of master percussionist Eddie Bobè. Performing alongside O’Farrill and his big band are the renowned pianist/composer Michele Rosewoman and guest percussion legends Román Díaz, Félix Sanabria, Gene Golden, vocalists Abraham Rodríguez and Héctor “Papote” Jiménez as well as Jay Rodríguez on saxophone. Eddie Bobè spoke of moments when the groove got so powerful it was said to be “burning.” Maestro Eddie brought that “burning” to every groove he played. Join us to celebrate an evening of rumba, batá, guaguancó and every manner of groove that Eddie Bobè was a poet of.

Fri | Mar 18 | 8:00 PM | Main Theater
Sat | Mar 19 | 8:00 PM | Main Theater
Eddie Bobe tribute Pre-Concert Talk on Fri March 18 at 7 pm

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/ruben-blades-rap-response-j-balvin-residente-fight-1319800/

Ruben Blades sorta says-- can't we all just get along

“Lo Siento BB” by Tainy, Julieta Venegas, & BD Bunny is ok but doesn’t wow me right now.

https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/cuba/premiere-harold-lopez-nussa-mixes-reggaeton-and-latin-jazz-on-first-taster-off-new-album-51973/

2020 article about Cuban Latin jazz pianist Harold Lopez Nussa incorporating Reggaeton into a track.

I wonder if there are others trying to do so?

I need to catch up on top reggaeton, Urbano, pop, bachata etc tracks too

Listening to Nio Garcia, Puerto Rican reggaeton singer and dancer who’s on tour in US in April. He’s ok. Most songs are a bit formulaic

Daddy Yankee is retiring.

put his number in the rafters!

Yes ! ( after a cup of coffee got your nod to baseball Yankees getting numbers retired.)

Rosalia shouted out Daddy Yankee and other early reggaeton acts in a New York Times article

s. “I listened to Don Omar, Ivy Queen, Lorna, Yankee, Zion & Lennox since I was at least 13,” she said. “This is part of my experience.”

https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/events/listening-to-the-forgotten-archival-research-methods-in-music.html

MARCH 31, 2022 | 12:30—2:00 PM EST
a zoom chat w/ Rosa Marquetti, the author behind the web resource Desmemoriados: Historias de la música cubana; Chano Pozo: La vida (1915-1948);the forthcoming book on Celia Cruz, Celia en Cuba (1925-1960), in Spanish but simultaneously translated into English

https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/digital-stage/jazz/2022/arturo-ofarill-afro-latin-jazz-cornell-west/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=22MJMingusEM1&utm_content=version_A&pid=6235679&promocode=461235

Arturo Ofarill & Cornell West 6pm stream on Kennedy Center youtube

Oh yeah, saw something about that over the weekend, thanks for the reminder.

I am 4 to 5 or so hours from Queens NY but keep getting IG ads for April 2 "Tripleta Salsero"-Rafu Warner, Mayito Rivera (ex-Los Van Van), Osvaldo Roman (ex-Puerto Rican Power) in Queens , Looks like you have to go to eventbrite or tickeri for specific location

jArturo & Co. streaming right now on FB.

This is kind of great watching Cornell West interact with the band.

Cornel.

Helping family, missed Cornel & Arturo.

Arturo and band and Cornell West show is archived it appears

https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/digital-stage/jazz/2022/arturo-ofarill-afro-latin-jazz-cornell-west/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=22MJMingusEM1&utm_content=version_A&pid=6235679&promocode=461235

https://soundsandcolours.com/articles/cuba/premiere-harold-lopez-nussa-mixes-reggaeton-and-latin-jazz-on-first-taster-off-new-album-51973/

2020 article about Cuban Latin jazz pianist Harold Lopez Nussa incorporating Reggaeton into a track.

I wonder if there are others trying to do so?

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:34 PM (two weeks ago)

I have struck out on trying to find any other Latin Jazz musicians who incorporate reggaeton. But I guess it's like jazz, in that some jazz musicians do like current hiphop and r'n'b but not too many try to incorporate it in their sound. Trying to meld live instrument music with programmed beat music isn't easy

ALBERTO BARROS EN NEW YORK !
Sat, Apr 2 – Sun, Apr 3
Melrose Ballroom, 3608 33rd St
Queens, NY

Colombian salsa singer whose music I don't know

Just seeing something about the passing of a Baby Bass player named Joe Santiago with whom I was not really familiar.

Google tells me Santiago once played with Eddie Palmieri, but I don't know the name either . RIP

Join the World Music Institute on Monday, April 11th at 6PM ET for an At Home livestream event in exploration of Changüí: The sound of Guantánamo, the acclaimed and historic collection of recordings of the Guantánamo region’s unique and authentic party music. The live streamed-event will feature a discussion with the music journalist and producer behind the collection, Gianluca Tramontana, and Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, educator and founder of the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance, Arturo O’Farrill, followed by a Q&A with attendees.

https://www.pe.com/2022/04/07/coachella-2022s-expansive-latino-presence-reflects-years-long-embrace-of-a-more-divers

Is the glass half full or half empty. Saw some grumbling about the main stage not including enough Latinx headliners

RIP El Tosco

http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2022/04/18/fallecio-el-tosco-director-de-la-orquesta-ng-la-banda/

for those who want more info re him, the director of NG La Banda .

I saw the singer from NG La Banda with his own band in 2015 I think.

Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros was the group I saw in a now gone place in Arlington, VA

Issac Delgado also used to sing for Jose Luis El Tosco Cortes group Ng La Banda

Seen both of those singers, but never saw El Tosco.

Me either

Last-minute notice: Tierra Sagrada will be screened virtually at 1 pm eastern today (Sunday) as part of the 20th Annual Pop Conference, followed at ~3:05 pm by a conversation with me and Pablo Herrera.

Oh missed that

What?

You missed your own conversation?

Ha . Don’t tell Ned S I shared that accidentally on internet.

Ned Sublette wants people to see his movie, but just to email about it , I think. Or something like that

https://latinalternative.com/

Conference on twitch April 27 to 29th

many of those panels are geared towards musicians and making it in the industry, but a few things aren't

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/02/ruben-blades-to-receive-harvard-arts-medal-on-april-30/

The 5:30 p.m. ceremony, presented by the Office for the Arts and the Harvard Board of Overseers, will include a discussion with Blades moderated by Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor and 2017 Harvard Arts Medal recipient John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, and performances by the Harvard Jazz Band led by Yosvany Terry.

...This summer, Blades will join the Chick Corea Spanish Heart Band tour as a vocalist. Other upcoming projects include an album of boleros with the Editus group, a production with his songs adapted to Brazilian music with Boca Livre, and the album “Salsa Big Band Vol. I and II” with Roberto Delgado.

new Bad Bunny

https://remezcla.com/music/listen-bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-new-album-music-video-watch-moscow-mule/

Panel Discussion: "Cuban and Puerto Rican Roots in Latin Jazz"
SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2022 at 5:30 PM
IN-PERSON EVENT (FREE)
Roberto Fonseca will join a panel of experts, including educator, percussionist and bandleader Fran Vielma, Puerto Rican trombonist and bandleader William Cepeda, trombonist, author, and ethnomusicologist Chris Washburne, and Claudia Morales from the Library’s Music Division in a discussion of the influences and roots of Latin jazz.
Saturday May 14, 2022. Doors at 5:00pm. Panel Discussion at 5:30pm. Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Whittall Pavilion.

If you go tell Chris I sent you, although I haven’t seen him in so long maybe he forgot about me.

I do follow up on social media so I knew he was doing these talks.

Cool. If I make it, will do. Been busy with family stuff a lot lately, and missing music stuff. I want to ask em if they have heard the touches of merengue and mambo on a couple songs on the new Bad Bunny album.

saw on twitter in Spanish but translated here== In 1975, at the age of 16, Lalo Rodríguez won a Grammy together with the Eddie Palmieri orchestra for the album, “The Sun of Latin Music”.
On that record there is a composition authored by Lalo. For me that song is one of the most beautiful boleros of salsa, "Wild Desire"

https://remezcla.com/lists/music/10-best-reggaeton-trap-songs-of-2022/

remezcla top reggaeton and trap songs of 2022

https://remezcla.com/lists/music/10-best-dembow-songs-of-2022/

Dominican dembow and more

that mediopicky song is a banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAz6GL5yOhY

lots of fun to be had on that reggaeton/trap en español top ten as well.

loving this Mexican one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVB4L2Hrfk
Bellakath • Gatita

especially the parts where the bass starts doing its own thing (act up like a tuba would?) at several points during the track

also from the dembow Dominicano list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEdDaalYx0s
El Alfa ft. Noriel & Trueno • Los Aparatos

si es trucho es trucho!

...and this, it's number one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYjtsSngogY
Angel Dior • A I O

a brand new one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj86BVgsOzI
Bulin 47 x Flow 28 • Po po po

El Alfa got a bit of airplay for awhile on the Sirius XM Caliente station I listen to in the car sometimes. They play reggaeton and some salsa .

he gets a lot of airplay out of car speakers in brooklyn, but idk if they're listening to caliente

El Alfa’s “Gogo Dance”, mentioned way upthread, is #35 on the Fader’s 100 Best Songs of 2022 list.

El Alfa’s partnership with producer Chael Produciendo is 🪲🪲🪲

sorry for party rocking en español:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtc-ameWXNk
Tivi Gunz x Angel Dior x Young Gatillo x Dflow • Zuculento

some wonderful production choices on those Angel Dior tracks, I'm not too familiar with the genre but sounds very fresh

and that "aji titi"! makes me wanna sing "aji titi" all day

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/arts/music/bad-bunny-rosalia-latin-pop.html

In 2022, Latin Pop Thrived on Innovation. Again.
Bad Bunny led a takeover, not a crossover, in a year that featured standout releases from Rosalía, Rauw Alejandro, iLe, Carla Morrison and Lucrecia Dalt.

Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2023: Reggaeton, Salsa,Bachata, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Merengue, Urbano and more Latinx

Los Calvos - ...Y Que Calvos! (1968) reissued in 2022.

Don't know anything about these guys but have really been enjoying this album. The 1967 album is also good. I think they only have 2?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lECY0QUhw

Don't know that Venezuela group Los Calvos at all either. Yeah, google says just 2 albums

https://remezcla.com/lists/music/20-new-songs-to-listen-to-this-week-from-aria-vega-to-clave-especial/

oops, need to post that on current year's thread