Cuban Boogaloo

VA - Freak Off: Latin Breakbeats, Basslines & Boogaloo (2001)

VA - Freak Off: Latin Breakbeats, Basslines & Boogaloo (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 471 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 244 MB
58:56 | Jazz, Latin, Afro-Cuban, Descarga, Boogaloo, Latin Jazz | Label: Harmless

Heavy Latin funk and soul! This excellent set follows in the same vein as Harmless' other Latin sets – dipping into obscurities of the late 60s and early 70s to come up with a cool batch of cuts that sound totally fresh today. And even though some of these tracks have already been reissued on the full CDs by the artists, the general groove of the set makes the tracks really great together – especially since some of the best cuts are from albums that are otherwise not that great. Titles include "Para Los Rumberos" by Tito Puente, "Psychedelic Blues" by Willie Bobo, "Control" by Ismael Quinones, "Freak Off" by Orchestra Harlow, "Black & Blues" by The Latin Soul Drives, "Spanish Grease" by El Chicano, "Combolu" by El Gran Combo, "Es Tu Cosa" by Joe Bataan, "Que Se Sepa" by Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound, and "Fun City Shingaling" by Joe Quijano & His Conjunto Cachana.

Ray Barretto - Acid (Remastered 2024) (1968/2024)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 15, 2024
Ray Barretto - Acid (Remastered 2024) (1968/2024)

Ray Barretto - Acid (Remastered 2024) (1968/2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 253 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 83 MB
35:09 | Latin, Cha-Cha, Boogaloo, Guaguancó, Descarga, Salsa | Label: Fania

Ray Barretto’s career has been a long and varied journey. Born in Brooklyn on April 29, 1929, he is the quintessential Nuyorican, a Puerto Rican born and raised in New York City. By the age of two, his family had moved to Manhattan’s Spanish Harlem and by seven, the South Bronx.

Ray Barretto - Acid (Remastered 2024) (1968/2024) (Hi-Res)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 15, 2024
Ray Barretto - Acid (Remastered 2024) (1968/2024) (Hi-Res)

Ray Barretto - Acid (Remastered 2024) (1968/2024) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-192kHz - 1.2 GB
35:09 | Latin, Cha-Cha, Boogaloo, Guaguancó, Descarga, Salsa | Label: Fania

Ray Barretto’s career has been a long and varied journey. Born in Brooklyn on April 29, 1929, he is the quintessential Nuyorican, a Puerto Rican born and raised in New York City. By the age of two, his family had moved to Manhattan’s Spanish Harlem and by seven, the South Bronx.
Orchestra Harlow - El Exigente (Remastered 2024) (1967/2024) (Hi-Res)

Orchestra Harlow - El Exigente (Remastered 2024) (1967/2024) (Hi-Res)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-192kHz - 1.1 GB
29:59 | Salsa, Rumba, Boogaloo | Label: Fania

Larry Harlow's third album was recorded in 1967 when Boogaloo was still in vogue as one of the most popular forms of Latin music. The vocalist Ismael Miranda makes his first performance with Orchestra Harlow and Larry had seem him sing with his brother Andy Harlow earlier in the year and being impressed had invited Ismael to sing for "El Exigente" his third album project with Johnny Pacheco one of the co-founders of the Fania Label contributing the musical direction. One thing though Larry still had that Cuban tradition behind him with two Guarachas and a Rumba in the mix between all this great Boogaloo and Shingaling.

The Joe Cuba Sextet - Salsa Y Bembe (1996)  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 22, 2024
The Joe Cuba Sextet - Salsa Y Bembe (1996)

The Joe Cuba Sextet - Salsa Y Bembe (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 286 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 127 Mb | Scans ~ 52 Mb
Salsa, Boogaloo, Latin Jazz, Tropical | Label: Charly | # CDHOT 606 | Time: 00:55:38

Born Jose Calderon in Spanish Harlem N.Y.C. of Puerto Rican parentage, conga player anad bandleader Joe Cuba was one of the most successful N.Y. Latin artists in crossing over to non-hispanic audiences. At the forefront of the Latin boogaloo trend, which incorporated black music in a fusion of Latin rhythms and piano montunos with R&B and even jazz, his sextet used English to penetrate the American public, sometimes using themes which incorporated the two languages. Tnis CD of some of the finest work by the Joe Cuba Sextet is compiled from the five key albums Steppin Out, Diggin' The Most, Comin' At You , Breakin' Out, and Para Enamorados Siempre, which they recorded for the revered N.Y. Seeco label from 1962-64. The Joe Cuba Sextet played more than boogaloo. As you will hear on this CD, their repertoire features superb Latin-jazz, joyful mambo, cha cha, bolero, guaracha and other Afro-Cuban rythms including a grooving version of Tito Puente's 'Oye Como Va'.

VA - The Rough Guide To Boogaloo (2005)  Music

Posted by SuniR at Nov. 22, 2017
VA - The Rough Guide To Boogaloo (2005)

VA - The Rough Guide To Boogaloo (2005)
Mp3 CBR320 kbps | 61:33 min | 146 Mb (5% Rec.)
Latin, Soul, World | Label: World Music Network

A fusion of Cuban salsa and American soul, boogaloo was the brightly burning dance craze fixating every young dancer in New York’s barrios in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Boogaloo was born out of the creativity of the 1960s generation of USA-born Latinos, who musically grafted American culture on to their Latin roots, leading many established Latin bandleaders to adopt the dance to irresistible results. The Rough Guide To Boogaloo is packed full of classic boogaloo firecrackers from Tito Puente, Charlie Palmieri, Ray Barretto, Joe Cuba and others.
Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet - Afro-Latin Soul (1966/2018)

Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet - Afro-Latin Soul (1966/2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 01:04:38 | 303 Mb
Afro-Cuban Jazz | Label: Strut Records

Strut continue their essential work with the “Godfather Of Ethio Jazz”, Mulatu Astatke, with the first official reissues of his early classics ‘Afro Latin Soul’ Volumes 1 and 2 from 1966, recorded as The Ethiopian Quintet.

Cuban fire: The story of Salsa and Latin jazz  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by insetes at Nov. 27, 2022
Cuban fire: The story of Salsa and Latin jazz

Cuban fire: The story of Salsa and Latin jazz By Isabelle Leymarie
2002 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0826455867 | PDF | 32 MB
Mongo Santamaria - Mongo At The Village Gate (1963) [Reissue 1990]

Mongo Santamaria - Mongo At The Village Gate (1963) [Reissue 1990]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 298 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 113 MB | Covers - 12 MB
Genre: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Riverside/Fantasy Records (00025218649025)

Mongo at the Village Gate finds Mongo Santamaria entering the boogaloo era with a variety of funky pieces that show the influence of R&B and soul-jazz without losing the group's roots in Cuban music. The infectious live set teams the conguero with trumpeter Marty Sheller, the reeds of Pat Patrick and Bobby Capers, pianist Rodgers Grant, bassist Victor Venegas, drummer Frank Hernandez, and the percussion of Chihuahua Martinez and Julian Cabrera. Such tunes as "Fatback," "Mongo's Groove," and "Creole" have happy, soulful, and simple melodies. This is one of Marty Sheller's best dates on trumpet, while Santamaria takes "My Sound" as a colorful unaccompanied solo. A remake of "Para Ti" is a welcome addition.

Cal Tjader - Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (1965) [Reissue 2002]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 22, 2023
Cal Tjader - Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (1965) [Reissue 2002]

Cal Tjader - Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (1965) [Reissue 2002]
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 210 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 88 MB | Covers - 72 MB
Genre: Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Verve (549111-2)

In the '60s, R&B was a much larger market than jazz. While John Coltrane or Art Blakey could fill a small club like The Village Vanguard, James Brown and the Temptations were selling out large auditoriums - gone were the days when jazz was very much a part of popular culture and Benny Goodman's name was all over the pop charts. Soul's popularity wasn't lost on Verve, which is why some of Cal Tjader's '60s LPs had titles like Soul Sauce and El Sonido Nuevo: The New Soul Sound - Verve wanted the baby boomers who were buying Stax and Motown releases to notice Tjader as well. However, Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof isn't the R&B-drenched project that some might expect it to be. Tjader's vibes solos are soulful in that he plays with a lot of feeling, but he isn't trying to be Marvin Gaye…