Steve Krinsky: Playlist from October 6, 2007

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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.