Salsa Cuba

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'.

The three brothers Gibson from Martinique had quite a touch for catchy tunes, spicy rhythms and good vocals. In 1979 and especially in 1980 they were very successful in continental Europe and in the UK…

Since their establishment in the year 1999, the Klazzbrothers have been exploring the borders between classic and jazz, linking tradition and the desire for novelty, as well as the correspondence of music of different cultures. The success of the Klazzbrothers with audiences and critics is undisputed, eliciting "… initial amazement followed by tumultuous applause." (translated from the Rheingau Echo).

Hand-made songs, delightfully crooked, like cigars. Songs for exquisite eardrums. Select quality for music- lovers and demanding collectors Cuban music for fun and pleasure. A luxury for a global minority. In MADE IN CUBA you will find a natural gathering of genres, periods, and the great figures and values of Cuban music. Songs that have walked through the doors of our lives and have comfortably installed themselves in the urban legens at the end of the millennium, driven by the warmth of a new way of thinking, apparently crossbred and global. Songs that bring a new understanding of both traditional and modern values. Made in Cuba is a duble album, the cream, the most expensive cohibas of Cuban music: Eliades Ochoa, Compay Segundo, Los Van Van, Benny More, Bola de Nieve, firahilfi'fierrer, el Trlo Matamoros, Pepesito Reyes, Celia Cruz, Cachao, La Lupe and El Guayabero amongst others…