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October 6, 2007: Sitting on Top of the World
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| Artist | Track | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Big Guitars from Texas | Guitar Army | Guitar as world music instrument! |
| Carlos Santana | La Fuente Del Ritmo | from "Caravanserai" (1972) |
| Latin Playboys | Toro | This is a side project of some of those Los Lobos guys; this is the most melodic number of the album |
| Latin Playboys | Same Brown Earth | The NYTimes said that Latin Playboys (& the Pogues) are mentioned on the net profile of Bill Gates! |
| Mexican Institue of Sound | Killer Kumbia | |
| Los Mirios | Sonido Amazonico | from "The Roots of Chicha" (Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru) Barbes, 2007 |
| Los Destellos | Para Elisa | more Peruvian cumbias, with a little Beethoven tossed in |
| Las Malas Amistades | La Prima | |
| Cortijo | Baila y Goza | El Senor Rafael Cortijo y Su Grupo |
| Los Zafiros | Oye Nicola | Brilliant Cuban do-wop. Tune written by Manuel Galban |
| Los Zafiros | Cuando Yo La Conoci | |
| Cubanismo | Salsa Pilon | |
| Dafnis Prieto | Ironico Arlequin | |
| Nuta Jazz Band | Instrumental No. 1 | Amazing Rhumba from Zanzibar |
| Dar Es Salaam Jazz Band | Mpenzi Usemayo | The way music travels, in this case from Africa to the Americas and back again, is amazing: "Zanzibara" has 17 rhumbas on Buda Musique |
| Extra Golden | Obama | Tribute to Senator Barack Obama, on "Here Ma Nono" (Thrill Jockey, 2007) |
| Bassekou Kouate & Ngoni ba | Banani | From "Segu Blue" (out/here records, 2007), song features Lobi Traore |
| Boubacar Traore | Samba | From the soundtrack to "I'll Sing for You"-- a trip through Mali through the music of Car Car |
| Boubacar Traore & Ali Farka Toure | Diarabi | The title of the CD-- and the movie-- is in French: "Je Chanterai Pour Toi". You can see some scenes on YouTube |
| Dee Dee Bridgewater | Red Earth (Massane Cisse} | "Red Earth: A Malian Journey" is jazz singer Bridgewater's tribute to Africa; recorded in Bamako and Paris with musicians from three continents. |
| Bassekou Kouate & Ngoni ba | The River's Tune | Bassekou plays the West African lute; this is a sweet instrumental from Mali |
| Bembeya Jazz National | Telephone | A 2-CD collection of "hits and rare recordings" from this Guinean band's years on the Syliphone labe (Sterns, 2007) |
| Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate | Kulanjan | Title cut to yet another collaboration between Africa & America |
| Corey Harris | Back Atcha | With the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band; from "Mississippi to Mali" |
| Otha Turner & the Afrosippi Allstars | Shimmy She Wobble | Featuring the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band. Otha Turner died a few years ago but another generation is keeping the music going |
| Otha Turner & the Afrosippi Allstars | From Senegal to Senatobia | Title cut. Otha Turner, from north Mississippi, died a while back but a new generation is keeping the music going |
| Dee Dee Bridgewater | Compared to What | Cover of a great 70s jazz hit-- is that an oxymoron?-- from her Mali album |
| Guinga | Mingus Samba | "Dialetto Carioca" (EGEA, Edizioni Discographie, 2007) |
| Baden Powell | Primeiro Amor | Roberto Baden Powell Aquino is a classical guitarist; his solo album-- "Seresta Brasileira"-- is on Caju Music (1991) |
| Choro Ensemble | Zanzando em Copacabana | Brazilian jazz with help from Israeli clarinetist Anat Cohen |
| Mima | Monir | Mima is Yari Caban, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. in 1994, she went to Brazil and her new CD-- simply titled "Mima"-- is a rich mix of Spanish & Portugese, with a great band |
| Siba e a Fuloresta | Pisando em Praca de Guerra | Found on a neat world music compilation: "The Womexizer 07" |
| Juca Chaves | Take Me Back to Piaui | From "Brazilian Beats 6". This is so catchy; did I play it before? |
| Nana Vasconcelos | Anarrie/Rain Dance | "Rain Dance" is Nana's 1980 album on Antilles, with the Bushdancers, his percussion ensemble |
| Nana Vasconcelos | Push Dance | More Nana |
| Raul Seixas | Mosca No Soba | From a Soul Jazz collection of 19 tunes: "Brazil 70: After Topicalia" with Tom Ze, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and lots more |
| Choro Ensemble | Brazleirinho | Thanks to Nicola Stemmer, who engineered this album, for loaning me the CD; check out Choro Ensemble at Zinc Bar in NYC on Thursday nights |
| Hazmat Modine | Yesterday Morning | Local group on fine world music sampler: "Womeximizer 07" |
| Steve Earle | City of Immigrants | With Forro in the Dark; from "Washington Square Serenade". Let's welcome our new neighbor to NYC. |
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