Marcos Valle is one of those artists you simply can’t overlook if you have even a passing interest in Brazilian music. Whether your taste leans toward...
Samba ’68, released on Verve in 1968, introduced Brazilian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Marcos Valle to a wider international audience....
Trio Ternura was a true family project, made up of three Brazilian siblings with deep musical roots. They recorded a couple of albums and quite a few 7”...
Spanish popular music took some wonderfully strange turns during the final years of the Franco era, as artists began weaving elements of soul and funk...
Perujazz was founded in 1984 by veterans of Traffic Sound, Los Mad's and Peru Negro and have spent the ensuing four decades refining Latin American sounds,...
Marcos Valle is one of those artists you simply can’t overlook if you have even a passing interest in Brazilian music. Whether your taste leans toward...
In the early 1970s, Roy Ayers formed his own band: Roy Ayers Ubiquity. Its lineup included artists well known to funk and soul fans such as Bernard Purdie,...
Free As You Wanna Be predates the deep-set, maverick jazz issued by the likes of Tribe and Strata East and is a harbinger of best of the 1970s jazz underground,...
Los Felcas were one of the best bands to come out of Peru during the golden years of the cumbia and tropical sounds explosion. In Lima, founding member,...
Peruvian dance bands Banda Juvenil Mayas Amautas and Los Bravos Del Ande drag Rod Stewart and John Travolta up into the thin Andean air for a wild bilingual...
This debut album from Jorge Ben’s iconic backing band blends Brazilian rhythms, soulful vocals, and American funk energy into one unforgettable groove.
Includes...
Those in the know are well aware of Bobby Marin’s work, and the fact that he was behind the scenes for some of the best boogaloo and salsa of the ‘60s...