No, I did not run out of Spanish-language music, it is just I have an urge to share with you some, I'd say, mesmerising jazz experience. Last week I was in Barcelona and my friends took me to Jamboree to see Clara Sallago Quartet (actually, a quintet: Marcel·lí Bayer was playing sax). One of the songs they were performing was Love me or Leave Me.
Kirill
This year, the Flamenco Festival in Saddler's Wells features Antonio Gades' Carmen, Ballet Nacional de España, Rocío Molina, Estrella Morente and Eva Yerbabuena. Fantastic.
Kirill
Cuba Te Llama, from the album Night of the Living Mambo by Mamborama. (According to founder Bill Wolfer, he came across the name "Mamborama" in Vienna but since has discovered that Tito Puente had an album by the name of Mamborama! back in '50s.)
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This week, it's Chick Corea's Spain. There are zillion interpretations of this composition, starting from the original (and still awesome) 1972 version from Light as a Feather and right through this 2006 duo of Chick and Hiromi Uehara. Now, can anyone point me to free sheet music of Spain on the web?
Kirill
Descarga total (listen and watch the video!) from the album of the same name by the Cuban flautist and bandleader Orlando "Maraca" Valle. Maraca appears on VI Tampere International Salsa Festival — thanks to him, now I know that such thing exists.
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...is Teach The Children performed by Katiuska, El Medico and Kuva Man To Man. This song appears on Reggaeton: the Cuban Revolucion and, as you may hear for yourself, features an interpolation of Pink Floyd's "We don't need no education". The message, however, is very different.
Kirill
