Thread: Anyone else like Latin music?

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Post by rammiepie June 6, 2012 (11 of 32)
tream said:

I haven't done a complete search, but your list is missing Mister E (Pete Escovedo) and Goza Mi Timba (Tito Puente), both of which are available on Amazon - I acquired them recently after catching Pete Escovedo at Yoshi's SF. Good stuff - especially Goza Mi Timba. Tito Puente was one of the great originals, and the composer of "Oye, Como Va", which Carlos Santana covered. (I got into an argument once with a potential date who insisted that Carlos Santana was the composers....needless to say, we never had a date.)

I have every Concord multichannel SACD and will concur that they never disappoint in both terms of content and SQ..............wish they'd (Concord) license future recordings to AP and break their (AP's) spell of releasing older jazz recordings (however, indispensable they are).

The two you mentioned, Tream, are great examples of modern jazz/Latino recordings.

And, IMO, Santana's Abraxas is way, way overdue for a hi~rez multichannel treatment......As I've mentioned many times before, my treasured and OOP DTS 5.1 version is simply amazing (at least on my main system)!

Post by DSD June 6, 2012 (12 of 32)
Rammiepie, Concord has licensed some of their recordings to HDTracks for high-resolution downloads, however those are stereo-only. The Concord Group is sitting on tons of hi-res multichannel music from Concord and two dozen other labels they own, since they are not releasing SACDs they should let someone else like AP or MFSL do it.

Post by rammiepie June 6, 2012 (13 of 32)
DSD said:

Rammiepie, Concord has licensed some of their recordings to HDTracks for high-resolution downloads, however those are stereo-only. The Concord Group is sitting on tons of hi-res multichannel music from Concord and two dozen other labels they own, since they are not releasing SACDs they should let someone else like AP or MFSL do it.

Simply amazing......and with the Sinatra family using the CMG to remaster ALL of Frank's Reprise albums (including the Bossa Nova flavored Francis Albert Sinatra/Antonio Carlos Jobim and it's never released companion album on one RBCD) wouldn't it be prudent to share the wealth with SACD collectors?

OT, Just read that Talk Talk's The Colour of Spring and the Spirit of Eden, both OOP EMI Stereo SACDs now commanding huge bucks on e~bay have been re~released as (get this) a 180g Vinyl/DVD~A combo. The DVD~A is stereo 96/24. You'd think they'd at least repress the SACDs but no.......that's too easy. And they're not being released (at least for now) separately so one must buy the vinyl to get the DVD~A. Actually, the price for the combo is MUCH cheaper than the OOP SACDs......but what nonsense!

This is a good thread, Teresa. Anyone who's hot~blooded should LOVE Latino music......no matter what the country of origin.

How far behind is the Mambo Italiano SACD thread for the equally hot~blooded I~talians (like myself)?

Post by Celebidache2000 June 7, 2012 (14 of 32)
Brazilian music is considered latin music as is the music of Spain, Portugal, the Spanish speaking Caribbean, Portuguese Africa and the Cape Verde Islands, Spanish speaking Central and South America, and Mexico.

There seems to be tons of Latin music in the SACD format.

Chesky alone have released the following:

Tropicana Nights,
Paquito D'Rivera: Tropicana Nights

Conga Kings
The Conga Kings: Jazz Descargas

Blue Bossa,
Ana Caram: Blue Bossa

Rio After Dark
Ana Caram: Rio After Dark

Mambo, Mambo
Mongo Santamaria: Mambo Mongo

Gypsy Flamenco
Carlos Heredia: Gypsy Flamenco

Hollywood Rio
Ana Caram: Hollywood Rio

Caminho de Casa
Herbie Mann: Caminho de Casa

Cantos de Agua Dolce
Marta Gomez: Cantos de Agua Dulce

Portraits of Cuba
Paquito D'Rivera: Portraits of Cuba

La Voz
Xiomara Laugart: La Voz

Post by SnaggS June 7, 2012 (15 of 32)
DSD said:

I was kinda disappointed with the complete lack of popular Latin songs on SACD. This music has a wide variety of acoustic instruments with lots of percussion that I think would show-off the SACD format quite well. Besides I really like a lot of it.

I've got a large collection of bossa, tropicalia, cumbia, discos fuentes and chicha. Soundway Records in the UK, http://www.soundwayrecords.com/ has been doing great re-issues for a couple of years now of hard to get material. Your only other alternative is buying vinyl from Brazil, Peru etc.. looking between $50-$200 an LP. Expensive genre to get into, enjoy Soundways.

Excluding the thrashed "Getz and Gilberto". There is ONE good title on SACD, Joao Gilberto's "white album", SHM-SACD from Japan. Sound engineer on this was none other than Wendy Carlos! (there's no moog on SACD either, anyone say Popcorn?)

Basically, most everything on SACD is junk, the latin equivalent of Max Bygraves conducting Beethoven 9th.

Daniel.

Post by sordidman June 7, 2012 (16 of 32)
""There seems to be tons of Latin music in the SACD format.""

Sadly.. no......... almost none... and your list is pretty comprehensive.

http://www.amazon.com/Concord-Jazz-Super-Audio-Sampler/dp/B0001FGBD4/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339105596&sr=8-2-fkmr0


Romero is a good one that you forgot....

Un Segundo Una Vida

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Pete Escovido

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=Pete+Escovido+SACD

very sad....

Post by MattMan657 June 7, 2012 (17 of 32)
I like how The Doors use some Latin beats. Dire Straits too.

Post by SteelyTom June 7, 2012 (18 of 32)
SnaggS said:

I've got a large collection of bossa, tropicalia, cumbia, discos fuentes and chicha. Soundway Records in the UK, http://www.soundwayrecords.com/ has been doing great re-issues for a couple of years now of hard to get material. Your only other alternative is buying vinyl from Brazil, Peru etc.. looking between $50-$200 an LP. Expensive genre to get into, enjoy Soundways.

Excluding the thrashed "Getz and Gilberto". There is ONE good title on SACD, Joao Gilberto's "white album", SHM-SACD from Japan. Sound engineer on this was none other than Wendy Carlos! (there's no moog on SACD either, anyone say Popcorn?)

Basically, most everything on SACD is junk, the latin equivalent of Max Bygraves conducting Beethoven 9th.

Daniel.

Daniel, do you own that Japanese reissue of the Gilberto 'white album'? How does it sound?

Post by DSD June 7, 2012 (19 of 32)
Celebidache2000 I have most of the Chesky's you listed, I have lots of Latin jazz and classical high resolution music, however I was addressing the lack of Latin Popular music, such as Son Parranda, here are sound clips http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007TC11FU/ref=dm_dp_cdp?ie=UTF8&qid=1339114069&s=music&sr=1-1

I have popular Latin in other formats but not much in high resolution digital. There were a few pop cuban (latin) songs on the Buena Vista Social Club DVD-Audio, not all of it was cuban jazz. This is what I would love more of on SACD.

Post by SnaggS June 8, 2012 (20 of 32)
SteelyTom said:

Daniel, do you own that Japanese reissue of the Gilberto 'white album'? How does it sound?

Yes I do, I thought it sounded good, but it was background music. I'll AB vs vinyl and get back to you.

Daniel

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