| Disc: 1 |
| 1. Ran Kan Kan - Tito Puente |
| 2. Mais Que Nada - Sergio Mendes |
| 3. Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria |
| 4. Cantaloupe Island |
| 5. Ponteio - Astrud Gilberto |
| 6. Vera Cruz - Stanley Turrentine |
| 7. Águas de Março (Waters of March) - Stan Getz |
| 8. Bien Sabroso - Poncho Sanchez |
| 9. Ode to Cachao - Tito Puente |
| 10. Yatra-Tá - Tânia Maria |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. Come With Me - Tânia Maria |
| 2. Smooth Operator - Mongo Santamaria |
| 3. Double Rainbow - Stan Getz |
| 4. Agua de Beber - Astrud Gilberto |
| 5. Favela - Antonio Carlos Jobim |
| 6. Wave - Oscar Peterson |
| 7. If You Want to Be a Lover - Luiz Henrique |
| 8. So Danço Samba - Luiz Bonfá |
| 9. Tide - Antonio Carlos Jobim |
| 10. Samba Para Dos - Bob Brookmeyer, Lalo Schifrin |
Very Best of Latin Jazz,Various Artists,Global TV,Afro-Cuban Jazz,Bop,Bossa Nova,Brazilian Jazz,Cool,Crossover Jazz,Disco,Fusion,Hard Bop,Jazz Music,Jazz-Pop,Latin Jazz,Post-Bop,Swing,West Coast Jazz
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King of Kings: The Very Best of Tito Puente
Tito Puente Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006EXC9 Release Date: 2002-08-20 |
Tracks:
- Dance Mania (Mambo)
- Oye Me Guaguanco (Listen To The Guaguanco)
- El Cayuco (Son Montuno)
- Caonao
- Ti Mon Bo
- Dance Of The Headhunters
- Hong Kong Mambo
- Cuando Te Vea (Guaguanco)
- Baile Como Es (Mambo)
- Saca Tu Mujer (Guaguanco)
- Cuancona (Guaguanco)
- Mambo Gozon
- Mi Chiquita Quiere Bembe (Cha Cha Bembe)
- Elequana
- A Gozar Timbero
- Cual Es La Idea (What's The Idea)
- 3D Mambo (Mambo)
- Son De La Loma
- Llego Mijan (San Montuno)
- Yambeque (Mambo Yambu)
- Night Ritual
Customer Reviews:
when is it classic and when is it stale?.......2007-04-05
great compilation.......2006-11-08
Should be better known.......2006-06-16
A great first Tito Puente album.......2004-04-10
Smooth latin grooves are guaranteed on every track. Scary tribal rhythms shine through on Dance of the Headhunters. As one of my friends said, if you don't bob your head to Ti Mon Bo, you probably don't have a pulse. Night Ritual, Hong Kong Mambo, and El Cayuco would rank as some of my favorites if I had to choose, but thankfully I don't.
Informative liner notes give a good history lesson about Tito's roots, how he begun, and how he lasted and played amazing music even into his older years. Puente will certainly be remembered for one of the longest lasting, highest quality musicians the world has ever seen.
A great stepping stone for other Puente albums, this will give a brief introduction to many of the styles Puente cultivated over the years. I suggest Mambo Birdland: Dancemania, a live album from the late 1990s, as a wonderful chance to hear Puente and his full orchestra in rare form, playing a live show in the Palladium, decades after his playing originally sparkled there.
A high quality album all around, a great beginning to more Puente albums. Highly recommended to any newcomers to salsa who have interest. As the liner notes proclaim, El Rey esta meurte: long live the King!
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The Very Best of Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000024TH2 Release Date: 2004-12-28 |
Tracks:
- Mas Que Nada
- So Many Stars
- Viola
- With a Little Help from My Friends
- Wichita Lineman - Sergio Mendes,
- Batacuda (The Beat)
- Dois Dias
- Easy to Be Hard
- Roda
- Some Time Ago
- Masquerade
- Fool on the Hill
- You Stepped Out of a Dream
- Moanin'
- Salt Sea
- For Me
- Stillness
- Cinnamon and Clove
- Going Out of My Head
- Look Who's Mine
- Like a Lover
- Ye-Me-Le
- Day Tripper
- Viramundo
Tracks:
- Wave
- What the World Needs Now
- For What It's Worth
- Where Are You Coming From?
- Chelsea Morning
- Lost in Paradise
- Joker
- Night and Day
- Scarborough Fair
- Canticle
- Tim-Dom-Dom
- Pretty World
- Look of Love
- One Note Samba/Spanish Flea
- Agua de Beber
- Can Do Nooso Amor
- Empty Faces
- Triste
- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
- Bim Bom
- So DanSamba
- Sometimes in Winter
- Constant Rain (Chove Chuva)
- Pradizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye)
Album Description
Outstanding two CD collection featuring 48 of the act's finest Easy Listening/Bossa Nova tracks recorded for A&M records from 1966-71, During the late '60s, Mendes was the most popular Brazilian artist in the U.S., and has remained a musical icon internationally for decades. More than two hours of solid Latin-tinged Lounge nuggets including the top 40 hits 'The Fool On The Hill', 'The Look Of Love' and 'Scarborough Fair/ Canticle', Other tracks featured include 'Mas Que Nada', 'With A Little Help From My Friends', 'You Stepped Out Of A Dream', 'Wichita Lineman', 'What The World Needs Now', 'For What It's Worth', 'Stillness', 'Agua De Beber' and many more. A&M.Customer Reviews:
fantastic album.......2007-03-27
the very best of sergio mendes and brazil 66.......2007-01-28
One of the greatest musical groups ever!.......2006-08-26
Love this CD!.......2006-08-08
The K-Man was right........2002-04-25
1. Cover versions of pop standards so annoyingly familiar you never want to hear the originals again. Mendes takes songs by the likes of the Beatles, Bacharach, Jimmy Webb and Simon & Garfunkel, re-arranges and re-imagines them in a samba mode, convincing you that they were originally written in Brazil after all. 'The Fool On The Hill' nearly collapses under its visionary excess; 'Day Tripper' becomes alive through slick jazz rhythms; 'What The World Needs Now' throttles at a frightening pace; 'Cheslea Morning' and 'Night and Day' exude sunny Rio rays; 'Norwegian Wood' brings out the yo-yo intensity buried in the original.
2. Arrangements of bossa nova classics by Mendes' old jamming cohorts. These are less radical than the above, and the attempts by anonymous, if proficient, session singers to replicate the idiosyncratic Astrud/Joao vibe don't always work; but the subtle reworkings offer new takes on old favourites - 'Bim Bom' is especially definitive, Mendes mining the wistfulness in the most frivolous of songs, sensing the music's soul in the piano. 'One Note Samba', which segues here into 'Spanish Fly', shouln't work, and doesn't, but is invigorating nonetheless.
3. Less familiar covers and original songs (written by Mendes and friends), which rarely equal the emotional depth of Jobim or Bonfa, but offer groovy bliss, warm generosity, bouyant fun and reflective sorrow in equal measures. 'Sometimes In Winter' is a pretentious epic with the most glorious melodic bridge; 'Pretty World' is one of the few songs that knows what being rapturously in love actually sounds like; 'Cancao Do Nosso Amor' and 'Pradizer Adeus' know the same despondancy that provoked Jobim's 'Insensatez'.
This division is, of course, arbitrary and artificial - unique production, settings and instrumentation mean each and every song sounds like a Mendes original. Cosmo Kramer was right - some people can still go wild for Sergio Mendes.
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Ritmo De La Noche: Very Best of Latin Jazz
Various Artists Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006AW9R Release Date: 2002-07-23 |
Tracks:
- Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria
- La Cuna - Ray Barretto
- Street Scenes - David Sanchez
- Ponteio - Astrud Gilberto
- Corazon - Hank Crawford
- Senor Blues - Herbie Mann
- Sweet Glenda - Gato Barbieri
- Stone Flower - Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Stella By Starlight - Arturo Sandoval
- Samba De Sausalito - Santana
- Vera Cruz - Stanley Turrentine
- A Gozar Con Mi Combo - Cachao
- Ritmo De La Noche - Al Di Meola
- Autumn - Ed Calle
- Eu Vim Da Bahia - Stan Getz
- Manteca - Paquito D'Rivera
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Jazz and Latin music are each irresistible on their own. Ritmo de la Noche combines them with a brilliance that would shame a rainbow. This collection of Latin jazz classics includes jazz men such as flutist Herbie Mann, who embraces tough Cuban rhythms on Horace Silver's "Señor Blues," from 1965, and the Fania All Stars' conga man, Ray Barretto, gliding into smooth-jazz territory with 1979's infectious "La Cuña." Astrud Gilberto brings bossa nova into the mix with the seductive "Ponteio" from 1971, featuring Stanley Turrentine playing the Stan Getz role on sax. Argentina's Gato Barbieri wields his familiar sultry tenor saxophone on the cha-cha-cha "Sweet Glenda," while perennial crossover star Carlos Santana hitches his unmistakable Bay Area barrio rock to 1973's percolating "Samba de Sausalito." The genius of the individual songs is matched by the effortless flow of the entire disc. And seminal selections like Mongo Santamaria's "Watermelon Man" from 1965 benefit from the clean and detailed remastered versions here. --Bob Tarte
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Very Best of Nestor Torres
Nestor Torres Manufacturer: Shanachie ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000N3TZBE Release Date: 2007-04-24 |
Tracks:
- Cafe Cubano
- Morning Ride
- Velvet Nights
- Treasures Of the Heart
- Smooth
- Burning Whispers
- Java
- Luna Latina
- Ain't No Sunshine
- This Side Of Paradise
- Besame Mucho
- Spanish Grease
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Very Best of
Joe Cuba Manufacturer: Snapper/Charly ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00024H552 Release Date: 2004-06-14 |
Tracks:
- Bang Bang
- Cocinando
- Ay Milagro
- El Raton
- Joe Cuba's Latin Hustle
- My Man Speedy
- Quinto Sabroso
- El Pito
- Trip To Mamboland
- Sock It To Me
- Y Tu Abuela Donde Esta
- Oriza Oco
- Psychedelic Baby
- Pataquibiriquambambaram
- Quieres Volver
- Yo Y Borinquen
- Mi Salsa Buena
- Bailadores
- Joe Cuba's Madness Pts. 1 & 2
- Oye Bien
- Mujer Divina
- Tortilla
- Talk About Love
- Alafia
- Ritmo De Joe Cuba
- Hey Joe, Hey Joe
- Chango
- Wakini
- No Coman Cuento
- To Be With You
- Mi Lindo Son
- Oh Yeah
- Flaco's Cha Cha
- Malanga Brava
- Contigo Aprendi
- Ya Se Acabo
Album Description
Fusing Latin sounds with those of R&B & jazz, Cuba & his sextet evolved a distinctive sound & here are 36 highlights on from key albums on two CDs. Charly. 2004.Album Details
Fusing Latin Sounds with Those of R&B and Jazz, Cuba and his Sextet Evolved a Distinctive Sound and Here Are 36 Highlights from Key Albums the Group Recorded from the Mid 60's to 70's.Customer Reviews:
Best of not so best..........2007-07-06
The songs are of low quality (to the point of being muffled). They even went as far as trying to remix the original songs such as Bang Bang (one of my favorite Joe Cuba songs), which came out poorly. Advice to record distributors trying to make a quick buck with best of albums, don't mess with original classics. If so, then make it clear to the consumer and don't try to pass it off as a Best of album featuring classic "originals". Call it the "Best of poorly done re-mixes done on the cheap album".
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The Very Best of Xavier Cugat
Xavier Cugat Manufacturer: Greatest Hits ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005EBTJ Release Date: 2004-08-02 |
Tracks:
- Chica, Chica, Boom, Chic
- La Cumparista
- Amor
- Miami Beach Rumba
- Besame Mucho
- My Shawl
- Isle Of Capri
- Oye Negra
- Jealousy
- Good, Good, Good (That's You, That's You)
- Cuanto Le Gusto
- La Paloma
- Cielito Lindo
- The Lady In Red
- Perfidia
- Tico Tico
- Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes)
- Frenesi
- I, Yi, Yi, I Like You Very Much
- Brazil
Tracks:
- Ahi Viene La Conga
- Estrellita
- La Golondrina
- Night Must Fall
- Para Vigo Me Voy
- Babalu
- Blen, Blen, Blen
- Negra Leonor
- Me Gusta La Conga
- Tunare
- Nueva Conga
- Negro A Reza'
- Bim, Bam, Bum
- Los Hijos De Buda
- Cachita
- Elube Chango
- Calentito
- El Mondonguero
- Benabe
- Tabu
Album Description
40th Anniversary deluxe edition. Includes 40 of Xavier's greatest hits on 2 CD's. Discon. 2005.
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The Very Best of Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval Manufacturer: Grp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00020IO0G Release Date: 2004-05-11 |
Tracks:
- Flight To Freedom
- The Latin Trane
- A Mis Abuelos
- Daahoud
- Swingin'
- Danzon
- A La P.P.
- Caprichosos De La Habana
- Be-Bop
- I Left This Space For You
- It Never Gets Old
Customer Reviews:
Highly recommended.......2007-06-10
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Very Best of Joe Cuba Sextet
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000B57SN6 Release Date: 2006-02-21 |
Album Description
The very best of Joe Cuba Sextet is a 2 CD set that includes the song's 'Mambo Of The Times', 'Joe's Cuba's Mambo' and 'Remember Me'. Atom. 2006.
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The Very Best of Cubanismo - Mucho Gusto
¡Cubanismo! Manufacturer: Hannibal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005R5L1 Release Date: 2001-11-13 |
Tracks:
- Mambo UK
- Descarga de Hoy
- Mulence
- Get Up Stand Up
- Paso en Tampa
- Aprovecha
- El Platanal de Bartolo
- Pa' Que Gozen
- Marie Laveaux
- Could You Be Loved
- El Paso de Encarnacion
- Salsa Pilon
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Trumpeter Jesus Alemany came up through the ranks of the Sierra Maestra band and founded ¡Cubanismo! in 1995. Since then, the group has garnered a fervent worldwide following with its tightly performed combination of elegant Cuban son and freewheeling jazz. On this greatest hits set, the band ranges between blockbusters such as "Mambo U.K."--which has since been used in a particularly ubiquitous TV commercial--the calypso-flavored "Paso en Tampa," and "Marie Laveaux," a tribute to a New Orleans voodoo queen. The album also includes a pair of previously unreleased and highly entertaining versions of classic Bob Marley tunes. A rumba-infused take on the anthem "Get Up, Stand Up" features the lilting sound of veteran Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin, while reggae vocalist Luciano heats up "Could You Be Loved." Produced by Nili Belkind for a project left mysteriously incomplete, these gems add fresh luster to an already secure crown. --Christina RodenCustomer Reviews:
The best.......2001-12-30
especially the Bob Marley Jams.
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Very Best of Latin Jazz
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000RGUGX8 Release Date: 2007-06-26 |
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