Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2024: Reggaeton, Dembow, Latin Pop, Salsa,Bachata, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Merengue, Urbano and more Latinx

dug this one from rels b and junior h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKqIu-ZMZ8

the beat to "gata only" is a bit mesmerizing, my current lizardbrain obsession

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r687V8yqKY

X-post - like the reggae ish feel on some of that Rels B and Junior H cut.

Need to listen to “Gata Only “ again

Puerto Rican parade in NY this weekend

stumbled on this group by chance. wish i could find out more about them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy8AtVG_daI

i'm thinking maybe there is some crossover with this folkways release in terms of genre. another one of their videos they're playing a style or type of song called "torbellino"

https://folkways.si.edu/afro-hispanic-music-from-western-colombia-and-ecuador/african-american-music-latin-world/music/album/smithsonian

Will check it out. I am listening to WPFW DJ Jim Byers on the Latin flavor show play out of print 1949 Machito music now

Romeo Santos & Aventura farewell bachata music tour sells out arenas & is largely ignored by English language music media . Night 2 @ Capital One in DC was the other night. Back in 2007 as a freelancer for the Washington Post I pitched and then did a concert review of them. Washington Post runs less concert reviews now from freelancers alas.

x-post re Grupo Palmeras from Colombia. The government of Colombia's Ministry of the arts has a twitter x page and they shared photos and a video clip of the group back in April 2024

https://x.com/mincultura/status/1777798337053262059

Looks like there's a Facebook page also for a band of that name

cool!

So I have never been to NYC club Terraza -7 but I follow it on Instagram and have seen some cool old school Latin conga jams

HI DERE!

It's in your hood isn't it

Yes

About a ten minute walk

I go there several times a week. Intending to go tonight for the 10:30 show

There now, but might not end up on camera

Sitting near my friend from Memphis who asked me how come I know so much about his hometown.

I had a house guest and brought him with me. I enjoyed pointing out all the Grammy winners in the place.

I missed the early show with Roman Diaz although I did chat briefly with drummer Diego Lopez who was on that gig when I got there. But Festejation was great as always. I forgot to wear my band t-shirt, which I only thought about when I saw the drummer, Juan Felipe, wearing his.

Claudia Acuña is there tonight!

Hopefully I can get back out

Back again for Claudia Acuña and it’s sounding great!

Somehow never saw this awesome bass player before

She seems to be doing a slow Spanish version of “God Only Knows” that’s really working

At the end of that just now she interpolated a quote from Minnie Riperton’s “Lovin’ You.”

Think it’s been fifteen years are so since I last saw her perform.

Still have not seen Claudia Acuna when she’s been in my locale.

Tonight in another genre I am missing the return to my area of Peso Pluma . He’s going to be at Capital One Arena .

And I see via the NY Latin Culture email and website that the following just happened

Friday
Rauw Alejandro and Farruko play the Governors Ball music festival in Queens 🇵🇷

Saturday
116th Street Festival is in “El Barrio” East Harlem 🇵🇷
New York Salsa Festival with Willie Colón, Gran Combo, Grupo Niche, Tito Nieves, José Alberto “El Canario” and more, is at Barclays Center in Brooklyn 🇵🇷

https://voz.us/don-omar-announces-that-he-has-cancer/?lang=en

Don Omar announced he has cancer

Ned S*blette is reporting in his email that the following folks passed away:

Percussionist Eugenio Arango, conguero y batalero, most widely known for his work with Pablo Milanés (hear him on one of Pablo's most beautiful songs, "Identidad"), and for Los Hermanos Arango, a group with his bassist brother Feliciano Arango that made a memorable presentation for us one night in Guanabacoa. He had so much more to give, but fortunately, he was able to record this wonderful album from 2017:

Musicologist Laura Vilar, professor and founder of Producciones Abdala, director of CIDMUC (Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Música Cubana) for almost twenty years, director of Revista Clave, and a friend, at 66.

Arango 2017 album is called Arango's World