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

Liking Fuego & Ryan Castro “Pendiente Al Paso”

Not sure if I heard remix or original version

Bad Bunny and Eddie Palmieri are both gonna be gigging live near me towards the end of March. Not together, alas.

Wanna hear Residente torch J Balvin for eight minutes? Sure you do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO73gUhiYe0

https://remezcla.com/music/residente-holds-nothing-back-diss-track-bizarrap-session-j-balvin/

I admit I enjoyed J Balvin live and some of his records. But his offstage comments and actions are not defensible

Saw some on twitter noting that Residente used to say he and his group weren’t Reggaeton, so who is he to be the one defending it.

But yeah, Balvin has more to apologize for

https://www.instantseats.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.event&eventID=B295D227-9CAB-F1CE-4C8FEED7DF84EE70

Eddie Palmieri Latin jazz at Keystone Korner in Baltimore March 25 and 26 and 27 has tickets in person and via streaming.

New York Times podcast episode on reggaeton

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/arts/music/reggaeton-genre-pop-edm.html

host Jon Caramanica with guests Isabelia Herrera, The New York Times’s arts critic fellow

Katelina Eccleston, reggaeton historian at reggaetonconlagata.com

I still need to listen to that history of reggaeton podcast Loud , narrated by Ivy Queen too

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/celebrating-viral-encanto-soundtracks-colombian-roots-180979435/

disney soundtrack for Encanto is number 1 on chart for weeks using music rooted in Colombia

NY Times article about Encanto soundtrack also. Too bad song "Bruno" to me on first listen sounds like Lin-Manuel Miranda just did his now formulaic mix of Broadway bombast and inserted rap verses with a bit of hidden Colombia rhythms. Carlos Vives is involved with this too

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/arts/music/encanto-soundtrack.html

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

Me either

Maybe he was just visiting/working?

Seen a bunch of those guys but not all in other contexts. Did see Luques with Eddie at Dizzy’s once when Steve Turre guested. I believe Eddie likes to use Jimmy Bosch and Conrad Herwig and then if one of them can’t make it some other trombone player I might be familiar with.

Just looked at Jimmy Bosch's twitter and it lists him as being based in both NYC & Tokyo. He tweeted once something about his Tokyo home.

Pretty sure I have seen Conrad Herwig with Eddie

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/arts/music/latin-grammy-awards-winners.html

Jon Pareles in NY Times on Latin Grammys

Bad Bunny #1 on Time magazine list for 2022

New Talisto track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hKtc7W8vnk

It could probably use a bit of polishing, production-wise, but I love it. I don't think I've ever heard anything I dislike from him.

Nice enough

David Virelles “Nuna “ album made NYTimes top jazz album list. The blurb for it says this pianist “pulls heavily from Cuban folk traditions: Changui, Abakua, danzon” but the blurb also refers to a lot of avante jazz pianists .

I haven’t heard it yet

iLe album Nacarile made Jon Pareles list in NY Times . His 15 more includes Rauw Alejandro, Bad Bunny, Jorge Drexler. Caramanica has Bad Bunny at 11. NY Times critic Zoladz has Rosalia in her top 10 as do the the others. She also has Bad Bunny in her additional albums list

really digging the new rauw alejandro album. i like how it looks both backward and forward - it uses the dinky, primitive synths from early reggaeton to create a futuristic soundscape. the back stretch really kicks the danceyness to another gear

I heard some freestyle flashbacks in there too

loving the Rauw too - it positively throbs

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rican salsa singer and musician “Lalo” Rodríguez was found dead Tuesday at a public housing project in the U.S. territory, according to police. He was 64.

Police said that while there were no visible signs of violence on his body, an autopsy would determine the cause of death.

The singer, who was born Ubaldo Rodríguez Santos, had struggled for years with drugs and alcohol and was previously charged with possession of cocaine.

Rodríguez once formed part of Eddie Palmieri’s band and is best known for his 1988 hit, “Ven, devórame otra vez” or “Come, Devour Me Again.”

So sad.

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