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Sierra Maestra - Sonando Ya -

Over three decades since they first began reviving the classic son music so popular in Cuba in the 1920s, Sierra Maestra prove they remain a vital force in a music that still somehow symbolises the island.

Long before he teamed up with Ry Cooder to give Cuban music overwhelming international...

Lagrimas Negras: Canciones y Boleros - Anyone who watched the documentary or listened to the CD of The Buena Vista Social Club will have noticed a significant absence of women among the featured performers. One who was in attendance, and stood out because of it, was Omara Portuondo. Like the rest of the participants in these...

Live At The 1977 Monterey Jazz Festival - Another in a series of Concord albums celebrating the Monterey Jazz Festival (previously: Brubeck, Tjader) presents the music of an American-born, but purely Latin music maestro, Tito Puente. It was recorded during his band's triumphant appearance at the 1977 festival, the first of many he would make at the storied...

Susana Baca -

quiet, unobtrusive album offering subtle but substantial rewards, Susana Baca's Seis Poemas presents summery South American pop stripped down to its elements, its instrumental starkness and lyrical introspection peeling most of the familiar tropical sheen off of this pleasant sound. Baca plays Afro-Peruvian music, which for the uninitiated is like...

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