Jorge

África Brasil is a 1976 release by Brazilian artist Jorge Ben, recording at the time as Jorge Ben. It was Ben's 14th studio album. África Brasil represented a milestone in Ben's career with Ben's switch to electric guitar and incorporation of both Afro-Brazilian and African-American pop music styles into his sound. Known for its funkiness, África Brasil is one of Ben's best-known recordings. Rolling Stone Brazil listed it as one of the 100 best Brazilian albums in history, and it was included in both Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die as well as Tom Moon's collection 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die.

Album released in Spain in 1980 under the RCA label, on the collection made in advance in 1973, on one of the voices of the Mexican song, the singer and actor Jorge Alberto Negrete Moreno (Guanajuato, 1911 - 53). During the 30's and 40's Jorge became a mass phenomenon. His fame and popularity spread internationally, including in countries he never visited, spreading his 'charro' singer image, with his broad hat, and popularizing the mode of the Mexican music and customs. The album, meets 9 of his greatest hits.

”Huellas” tastes like Jazz and flamenco winds, it is full of freshness and vitality, and somehow, brings together leading composer with the distilled and concentrated Flamenco essence. An overview of this art seen from the outside to inside and from inside out. A flamenco feeling between the sound of a jazz band. A vision of improvisation with new references. Meeting and dispersion at the same compass. An execution for those who feel, breathe and know these fundamentals, which are none others than the deepest soul where there is no time or place.