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Maikel Blanco - Live recording, Cuba.
Pupy y Los Que Son Son - Live recording, Cuba.
Havana D'Primera - Pasaporte CD. (new release)

Here is my play list from my weekly radio show AL LADO LATINO www.kbcs.fm u can tune in and listen right now, the show is archived...

Manhatten School of Music AFro-Cuban Jazz Orch Tito Puente Masterworks,Live! Ritual Fire Dance Jazzheads
new music 6:06p Colette Michaan Querencia El Montuno
6:12p Grupo Latin Vibe All That Vibe La Llave
new music 6:20p Bobby Matos Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble Beautiful As The Moon Fiddlunky Lifeforce Jazz
6:26p Ray Barretto Que Viva La Musica [Disc 1] Arrepientete
6:31p Curtis Brothers Quartet Blood • Spirit • Land • Water • Freedom Taino Revenge N/A
6:40p Santana Santana 3 No one to depend on Columbia
new music 6:42p Luis Conte En Casa De Luis Sticks And Stones BFM
new music 6:49p Eliel Lazo El Conguero Pa Cumbanchar
6:55p Mingo Lewis Flight never ending The Wizard CBS
new music 7:02p Susie Hansen Representante De La Salsa Las Calles De Chicago Jazz Caliente
7:08p Freddie Hubbard the Black Angel Gettin Down Atlantic
new music 7:16p Ekendra Das Ethnomusicology MPM Unsigned
7:21p Viento De Agua De Puerto Rico al Mundo La Riena Mia
7:25p Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius Okonkole Y Trompa Epic
7:34p Eddie Palmieri Bamboleate Mi Montuno Tico
7:38p Mongo Santamaría Skin To Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology (1958 Bacoso
new music 7:48p John Santos & The Coro Folkórico Kindembo La Esperanza Llanto Para Un Amigo Machete records
7:55p Mark Weinstein Con Alma Monte Adentro Jazzheads

I guess everybody knows the Lecuona Cuban Boys but for those who don't,

rumba negra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RhDYHyfH-g

OYE MI RUMBA singer-tres "Maño " Lopez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKHDrvVhk-0

Canto Indio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzyzRh-VNXo

Lecuona Cuban Boys, v. Alberto Rabagliatti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiWpNaPfRu0

Para Vigo me voy - Conga http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yezF2KK44s4

Vox Pathfinder 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEUiUFmTeo0

Hindou http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFpW1jUZ ... playnext=5

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I was just shopping in Tower Records (Osaka) again and discovered a couple of gems that I think would be really hard if not impossible to find in North America right now:

Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Roots" and "Mongo 70". I'm just ripping Afro Roots onto my computer now. I know I will like this one because I've heard about half the songs on it over the years and I almost choked when I saw it along with Afro 70. Never heard that one yet but it will be getting played real soon! Unfortunately all the liner notes are all in Japanese so I will have to get my wife to translate for me!

I could spend a lot of dough in this store!

Update:
"Afro Roots" 4 out of 5 stars... awesome recording!
"Mongo 70".... ummm maybe it's an "aquired taste"! but so far, not so great.

This Jesus Diaz diaz CD has been in my car for weeks now...

I picked it up seven years after the fact, but hey, it is never too late to enjoy some solid music.

best of cal tjader- the concord years.
willie bobo- lost and found.
cal tjader- solar heat.
mulatu astatke- steaps ahead.
tito puente- dance mania.
rumboleros- protesta carabali.

My last saturday show AL LADO LATINO playlist www.kbcs.fm my shows are 'archived' 2 weeks back for 4 hours of the Best in Latin music...


Lucky7mambo Chapter 1 Boco Boco Unsigned
6:05p Héctor Lavoe La Voz La Banda Emusica
6:09p Paoli Mejias Transcend Oye Como Suena
6:24p The John Santos Sextet Filosofía Caribeña, Vol 1 La Rumba Me Lleva Independent
6:24p Bobby Sanabria & The Manhattan School Of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! Yambeque [Live] Jazzheads
6:31p Willy Torres Hardcore Se Formo La Rumba Latin Street
6:34p Johnny Conga Breaking Skin Mariel Unsigned
6:40p Mark Weinstein Con Alma Monte Adentro Jazzheads
6:46p Tiempo Libre My Secret Radio Mi Gente (My People) Sony Masterworks
6:57p Mambo Legends Orchestra Watch Out! ¡Ten Cuidao! Para Todo El Mundo Rumba
7:01p Conjunto Impacto Conjunto Impacto Rosalinda's Eyes SOLS records
7:06p Colette Michaan Querencia Cuentame
7:11p FANIA All Stars Latin-Soul-Rock Mama Guela FANIA
7:14p Juan-Carlos Formell Las Calles Del Paraiso Fuego De Amor EMI Latin
7:21p Ricardo Ray Comejen Suavito Fonseca
7:26p Mambo Legends Orchestra Watch Out! ¡Ten Cuida'o! [Disc 2] Watch Out!
7:33p Joe Cotto Dolores Dolores MAGDA
7:36p The John Santos Sextet Filosofía Caribeña, Vol 1 The Sense of Now Independent
7:44p The Latinaires Like it is El Nene Bravo Cotique
7:49p Bobby Matos Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble Beautiful As The Moon Maramoor Mambo Lifeforce Jazz
7:55p Willy Torres Hardcore Rumba Pa' Un Cantor Latin

I just got a copy of Concepts in Unity by Grupo Folklorico Y Experimento. This is nice!