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Ah ha, from Dusty Groove:A crack set of early 70s Latin, played by 'the cream of New York' - a group that includes Louie Ramirez on piano, vibes, and organ, and Mauricio Smith on flute and sax! The whole album's pretty darn great, with a really strong jazzy touch - thanks to great work by Ramirez and Smith - and at some level, the feel of the record is similar to that of labelmates Ocho, with an equally righteous blend of styles. Most tracks have vocals, but the main focus is on the strong instrumentation - and 2 cuts on the set are instrumentals. Titles include 'Salta Perico', 'El Party', 'Quimbia', 'Mi Pais', and a great funky cover of 'Cisco Kid'! In Puebla or somewhere in Mexico, in their discount binIt figures.Anyway, that's their best album together, from what I've heard of their work (and I don't think I've ever come across even one person who dissents from that view).x-post:The La Crema you mean? It actually is really good.

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It's not as crazy as the cover makes it look, but in the beginning there are people ringing a doorbell and coming in to the party, and then at the end there's party-leaving chatter as well. I didn't realize Louie Ramirez was involved until I Googled it, but I generally like him (as vibraphonist and as arranger/bandleader). I think one of the big things I don't like about Barretto is actually a small thing: I don't like the way so many of his songs have the clave continuously played.

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And I don't like the sound of the claves, or whatever it is that the clave is being played with. (Sometimes it sounds like it's some other percussive instrument, but I could be wrong.) I also don't think I like his particular slant on making salsa jazzy, the particular harmonic stuff. But in the final analysis, I'm not sure I can fully analyse what it is I typically don't like about his salsa. It's all very solid, the playing is good, it's just his style that basically turns me off (or at least, doesn't turn me on).(Last post: WTF, a bit off-topic.

Tiit, I will get to this eventually. I remind you that it was your idea. In general, it's better to let me 'go first' in a trade.).

I'm not too familiar with the compilations, but based on casually looking at the track listings for a lot of them, I usually find myself thinking: wouldn't you want to just get the whole album some of these songs come from? In many cases we are talking about albums that are strong overall (not that the individual tracks can't stand up outside that context).

Of course, I'm not really telling you to just start buying dozens of these albums. Buku program sekolah. If you can give me some examples of tracklists, I might be able to comment. (I can't find a tracklist for the first volume of those Our Latin Thing compilations, and I'm not familiar with at least half of what's on Vol. Heres the tracklisting for vol 1 of our latin thing. I just ordered this and the new york salsa 2cd comp. I would like to buy the full albums as usually i dont really like compilations as they dont hang that well together but then i often find when you buy the proper albums, sometimes the albums are mostly a few standout tracks supported by filler.

I dont know if thats how it is with fania though.1. Bang Bang - Cuba, Joe2. I Like It Like That - Rodriguez, Pete3. Boogaloo Sabrosa - Santamaria, Monguito (1)4. Mercy Mercy Baby - Barretto, Ray5.

Subway Joe - Bataan, Joe6. Hit The Bongo - Puente, Tito7. Gotta Do My Number - Averne, Harvey8. Willie Wopper - Colon, Willie9. Consolacion - Roena, Roberto Y Su Apollo Sound10. Change Had Better Come - Dimmond, Mark11.

Soul Makossa - Fania All Stars12. Quimbara - Cruz, Celia & Johnny Pacheco. That looks like it's tilted toward the boogaloo/Latin soul side of things, but I definitely do like some of those cuts. It's kind of weird because it starts off mostly boogaloo (-ish) and then you get something like that Celia Cruz/Johnny Pacheco track at the end, which has a much more traditional, Cuban-rooted, conjunto sound. But the three tracks ahead of it could provide a transition.

(I don't know them, by name anyway.)I'm not anti-compilation in general, I've just seen a lot of Fania compilations that pull out individual tracks from albums I consider good all around. (And sometimes you will get a series of this where volume 1 has one track from album x, and then volume 3 has another track from album x, and volume 4 has yet another track. It just seems like a weird way to repackage it.

You might as well get a list of albums in a case like that.)the new york salsa 2cdDo you know the exact title? (Sorry, but there are so many of these things.). Its this one -see, i dont really know if the our latin thing vol 1 is mainly boogaloo or what, although id be interested to get a good grasp on whats what, which is why i thought maybe a compilation would be a good place to start.

I dont wanna spend loads of money and feel like i got burnt cos i bought the wrong stuff that isnt to my taste. I just hate comps though cos they seem so all over the place and not often very cohesive or worse, just lacking in quality control and compiled by someone who doesnt know much about the tracks (or they have loads of obscure stuff which is only really good once you know the most famous songs).