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

Thanks. Listening to this song now:

"Fruko El Grande" ("Fruko The Big") is the name of the album I'm talking about. It has one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) salsa hits made in Colombia. The second cut from side B, called "El Preso" ("The Prisoner") is a song that not one single Colombian can say hasn't heard at least once in his/her life. Not sung by Joe Arroyo but Wilson Manyoma "Saoko", the other lead singer in the band.

Cuban band Los Van Van were playing US gigs in May and now its former Los Van Van member Pupe to come with his band Los Que Son Son around the week of July 4th. I saw Pupe and Los Que Son Son, his timba band, once and they were great.

Now coming to SOBs in NYC on July 1st, DC on 2nd, XL in Jersey on 3rd, Los Angeles on July 8, San Francisco on 9th, Louisville, Kentucky on 15th, Chicago on 16h

SALSA TIMBA FESTIVAL - PUPY LOS QUE SON SON-EL NORO
Saturday, Jul 2, 2022 - Doors: 9:00pm
Karma DC Live Music Venue
2221 ADAMS PLACE NORTHEAST
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 20018

https://www.facebook.com/DD-Records-Arts-Entertainment-107917724118129

Pupy

I wasn't familiar with her work, but RIP ethnomusicologist Roberta L. Singer.

I was not either. But I see she did this cool "A South Bronx Latin Music Tale"

https://placematters.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/mambo.pdf

Just saw the Bobby Sanabria writeup of Roberta SInger on FB that some have shared there

Yes. That's how I saw it first.

I shared info about Singer on twitter as she was barely discussed there. As annoying as FB can be, it's a better site for some older rooted music genres.

Publicists are hyping US small club tour of Chilean folk-pop Pascuala Ilabaca and her band

I shared info about Singer on twitter as she was barely discussed there. As annoying as FB can be, it's a better site for some older rooted music genres.

https://2022.jazz.org/bobby-sanabria looks really good. Don't know if I can get a virtual ticket.

Haven't gotten one yet but, ten bucks, cheep!

I'm in. Bobby is doing a Father's Day spiel about all the music he listened to with his dad.

There is kind of a Buddy Rich thing about him tbh.

Band is killing "Caravan" right now, or a medley that includes "Caravan" and maybe something else.

Really enjoying this long story about James Reese Europe and Rafael Hernández Marín.

Kind of a cool thing now where each trombone player took a mini solo.

Now they are doing a version of "Spooky!"

"Spooky"!

Now "Do It Again"

I feel disloyal to the Steely Dan backup vocalists.

Ha

Might buy a virtual ticket to Michele Roseman there next Wednesday.

https://2022.jazz.org/michele-rosewomans-new-yoruba
Somehow I had never heard of her until The Pope told me about her last year.

I know her name but not her music. Impressive looking band lineup there. That might be worth checking out.

In a different genre — have heard El Alfa doing gogo dance several times . It’s reggaeton not Dc go-go

Ugh, I messed up her name in my last post, Rosewoman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GHKHDxpK1g

Smithsonian Folklife Festival tribute concert to late plenero Tito Matos. The video has some tech glitches and unrelated footage at beginning before the emcee comes on and the music starts. There is also film of Matos wife and 8 year old son talking about him eloquently .

The tribute is long and there's lots of talking in between, but the dancer who joins La Plena de la 21 part of the way through is fun to watch '21 horn section and percussionists are impressive. The first group led by John Santos mixes plena with jazz fusion and they were my least fave of the night. The 2 younger groups who play after the long Plena de la 21 are good too, and a bit different. One did some nice harmonies and other vocal techniques that worked well.

Sirius xm is still playing The reggaeton pop track by Zion & Lennox and Danny Ocean “Brisa” a lot along with that “gogo dance” by El Alfa .

Their algorithms also have them playing Victor Manuelle and El Gran Combo on occasion, so that must mean folks other than me like salsa and Reggaeton.

For those Latin jazz gigs in NYC with pianist Rosewoman this week , I see that she has a band including Chris Washburne, trombone/tuba, and Robby Ameen, drums among others

https://www.moderndrummer.com/2004/05/robby-ameen/

Yes! And Alex "Alexander Pope" Norris, who I just ran into yesterday at Samuel Torres gig in my neighborhood whilst running an errand. Think Roman Diaz is usually in her band too.

SiriusXM Caliente station keeps playing El Alfa “Go-go Dance”

they might soon start playing “Chu Chu Pamela” too, again produced by Chael Produciendo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BAEmXqOdJc

great stuff

Sometimes I think El Alfa's speedy, warped vocal sound is really clever and cool, but after awhile (if listening to a full album) it can get a bit annoying.

Still like him enough I would want to see him live when he performs locally in about 2 weeks (but am gonna be away)

Some dates of that tour I mentioned upthread with former Los Van Van member Pupe & his band Los Que Son Son, have been postponed. DC show is now July 22 at a club called Karma that usually just has really late night djs or rap and bouncebeat go-go gigs.

Couldn't remember name of this thread well enough to find on search, so just now posted on Rolling Reissues:
With this year's American Clave Piazzolla set, mentioned upthread, out now on various streaming services:
https://astorpiazzolla.lnk.to/TheAmericanClaveRecordings?eml=2022June10/5728203/6011771&etsubid=33248291,
Nonesuch reminds us of this, from last year:

Tom Service commemorates the centenary of the birth of Astor Piazzolla with a portrait of the great Argentine bandoneon player and tango composer, and explores his revolutionary style which changed the genre for ever. He also questions his legacy in today's Argentina.
We hear from Piazzolla himself in rare BBC archive material, as well as his widow Laura Escalada Piazzolla; his grandsons Daniel Villaflor Piazzolla, who runs the 'Fundación Piazzolla' and Daniel 'Pipi' Piazzolla, drummer in jazz band 'Escalandrum'. There are contributions, too, from the critic Fernando González, who translated Piazzolla's Memoirs into English and interviewed him for international publications; the pianist Pablo Ziegler, who performed with Piazzolla for 11 years in one of his Quintets; and amongst others, the singers Amelita Baltar, who premiered many of Piazzolla’s songs, and Elena Roger, who offers a new take of Piazzolla's music...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000t4fp

Cuban timba pianist Cesar Pupy Pedroso y los que son son were great when I saw them in Arlington, VA near DC years ago; they were on a US tour now, and legendary pianist and bandleader Pupy Pedroso has passed RIP

https://www.granma.cu/cultura/2022-07-17/el-legado-musical-de-pupy-pedroso

Seeing folks on Facebook and twitter talking Pupy and timba and expressing condolences. Spanish language sites mentioning his legacy

RIP

Went over to Terraza 7 to see Mick Eckroth do his Arsenio Rodriguez project again which was really good as always. Ben Lapidus played tres and had a cool hat on.

This time I did manage to talk to Ben Lapidus for a bit.

Also talked to this guy, Steve Gluzband.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcENE1YClBA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Gluzband

Latest Lapidus book looks good. Maybe get it and The Tide Was Always High just to keep a balance.

Forgot I also have a copy of his academic colleague Peter Manuel’s book Caribbean Currents, which is pretty good.

Leafing through Lapidus’s book now. It’s incredible, my jaw is dropping at the amount of detail.

Bobby Sanabria's Multiverse Band at Bryant Park courtesy of Jazz Mobile:
https://www.facebook.com/bryantparknyc/videos/1743576976002693