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Title Latin - The Essential Album Subtitle Over 30 massive hits from latin music's biggest stars Artist Various Artists Format: Double CD Cat. No.: MANTDCD203 Barcode: 698458220325 Playing Time: over 2 hours

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Track List CD1 1 Blackout All Stars – I Like It (Like That) 2 Tito Puente & His Latin Ensemble – Ran Kan Kan (Live) 3 Celia Cruz – Bamboleo 4 Rafael Cortijo & Ismael Rivera – El Bombon De Elena 5 Fruko Y Sus Tesos – El Preso 6 Afro Cuban All Stars – Distinto, Diferente 7 Joe Arroyo Y La Verdad – Rebelion 8 The Latin Brothers Feat. Joe Arroyo – Deja Ese Orgullo 9 Cubanismo – Descarga De Hoy 10 Chichi Peralta + Son Familia – Procura 11 El General – Muevelo 12 Proyecto Uno – Latinos 13 Bobby Matos & John Santos – I Don’t Speak Spanish (But I Understand Everything When I’m Dancing) 14 Eddie Palmieri – Vamonos Pa’l Monte 15 Perez Prado – Mambo No.5 CD2 1 Santana – Oye Como Va 2 Beny More – Babarabatiri 3 Africando – Yaye Boy (Remix) 4 Omara Portuondo – Guantanamera 5 Ruben Gonzales – Rico Vacilón 6 Israel ‘Cachao’ Lopez – A Gozar Con Mi Combo 7 Cheo Feliciano – El Raton 8 La Sonora Matancera & Celia Cruz - Burundanga 9 Manny Oquendo - Que Humanidad 10 Jose Alberto ‘El Canario’ – La Flor De La Canela 11 Plena Libre – Bembé De Plena 12 Eddie Palmieri – Ritmo Caliente Ii 13 Spanish Harlem Orchestra – Un Gran Día En El Barrio 14 Bobby Matos & His Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble – Kimbisia 15 Francisco Aguabella – My Favourite Things         Sleevenotes   CD1 01. Pete Rodriguez - I Like It Like That Pete ‘Boogaloo’ Rodriguez’s catchy clash of Latin with R’n’B and soul with cocky English lyrics and tough, inner-city percussion defines the style that briefly obsessed young Latin New Yorkers in the mid-60s. 02. Tito Puente - Ran Kan Kan The Mambo King opening with a vibes-led, brassy gem first served in 1949 at New York's Palladium ballroom. The vibraphone rarely sounded so bright or funky as in Puente's solo. 03. Celia Cruz - Bamboleo Only the Queen of Salsa and her courtiers, the Fania All Stars could snatch this global hit from the Gypsy Kings and create such an Afro-Cuban flamenco spectacular. 04. Ismael Rivera - Las Caras Lindas The magnificent, husky voice of ‘El Sonero Mayor’ (‘The Greatest Latin Singer’) Ismael Rivera, is a standard-setter for Puerto Rican salseros. Here with a song by one of salsa's greatest writers, Tite Curet Alonso. 05. Johnny Pacheco - La Esencia Del Guaguancó The Godfather of New York salsa, founder of Fania records which nourished dancers all over Latin America for two decades. Trumpets, Cuban drums and Pete ‘El Conde’ Rodriguez’s vocals = perfect salsa. 06. Afro Cuban All Stars - Distinto, Diferente Juan de Marcos Gonzalez continues the alchemy he wrought with the Buena Vista Social Club with this blend of fabulous matured voices and instrumental solos - and indulges in a mean tres guitar solo. 07. La Sonora Matancera & Celia Cruz - Burundanga Late 50s hit for Cruz's most perfect backing band. The trumpeter blasting sizzling responses to her young, assured vocals is her future husband, Pedro Knight. A tongue-twister to showcase her sensational vocal powers. 08. Johnny Pacheco & Pete 'El Conde' Rodriguez - El Piro De Farra A swinging salsa classic from the dynamic duo of the husky-voiced singer ‘El Conde’ and bandleader and salsa pioneer Pacheco. 09. Rafael Cortijo & Ismael Rivera - El Bombón De Elena The 1955 mega-hit by singer 'Maelo', with percussionist Cortijo providing a throbbing bomba rhythm and brassy backing to Rivera's sultry drool over the dancer Elena. 10. Willie Colón - La Murga A hit in 1971, this classic still opens trombonist and band-leader Willie Colon’s live shows. Its raucous trombone choruses obey the angular rhythms of Panama’s folk dance, the ’murga’. 11. Chichi Peralta + Son Familia - Procura Dominican percussionist Peralta leapt from Juan Luis Guerra's new-bachata band 4:40 and founded his own sensational band to develop Guerra’s style. ‘Procura’ swings on fresh, rippling guitars, squeaky trumpets, and the catchiest melodies. 12. El General - Muévelo Panamanian Brooklynite ‘El General’ unlocked the potential dynamite in merging dancehall reggae with salsa backbeats and created Latin ragga. The original Spanglish toaster exploded all over the Americas in the late 80s. 13. Proyecto Uno - Latinos The original Latin house and merengue-rappers with their 1996 album 'New Era' featured fabulous straight salsa trombones, pumping merengue bass, and Spanglish raps, and hooked young Latinos everywhere. 14. Fania All Stars - Coro Mirayé The powerhouse of salsa all-stars named after the record label which propelled them to supestardom, with this hugely successful, up-tempo mambo. 15. Eddie Palmieri - Vamonos Pa’l Monte Genius of the salsa piano and one of salsa's great radicals, NuYorican Palmieri transforms a gentle Cuban country classic into horns and drums drama, with wildly improvised piano solo. 16. Perez Prado - Mambo No. 5 The original by mambo's wild man, pianist Perez Prado. His percussive grunts, on-the-beat trumpet choruses and free-range piano solo all sampled by Lou Bega decades later. CD2: 01. Santana - Oye Como Va The Woodstock Festival introduced the world's Sixties hippies to Tito Puente through this flowing, guitar-led version of TP's Latin composition. The Mexican guitarist's version remains almost perfect. 02. Hector Lavoe - La Fama Lavoe's clear nasal twang carried the Puerto Rican country tradition, but the music is strictly New York salsa as he laments that his adoring fans ignore the reality behind ‘la fame’ (the fame).. 03. Rubén Blades - Pedro Navaja This timeless Latin American anthem was released in 1978 on the Blades-Willie Colon album "Siembra". A lean Cuban percussive backing offset Blades's compelling vocal reworking of ‘Mack the Knife.’ 04. Larry Harlow - Arsenio Harlow is considered to be one of latin music's greatest pianists and was a leading light in the Fania All Stars. This hit song was his homage to the premier Cuban tres guitarist, Arsenio Rodriguez. 05. Beny Moré - Babarabatiri Forget Perez Prado's Guinness ad, this is Beny Moré - the voice of Fifties Cuba, sanctified since his death in 1963. A mambo tongue-twister to showcase his unmatched sense of rhythm - and fun. 06. Rubén Gonzáles - Rico Vacilón Grammy-winning pianist Rubén González was a key member of Ry Cooder's Buena Vista Social Club and has gone on to even greater fame through his solo work. This famous cha-cha displays González’s flowing piano style. 07. Omara Portuondo - Guantanamera The sultry-voiced diva from the Buena Vista Social Club lends a moody interpretation to Cuba's unofficial national anthem which pumps out of every tourist bar in Havana. 08. Cachao - A Gozar Con Mi Combo Cuban master double bass player and Latin music's most ingenious rhythm broker, in the 1994 Master Sessions with the A team of US-Cubans and producers Andy Garcia and Emilio Estefan. 09. Cheo Feliciano - El Ratón Puerto Rican crooner Feliciano in slow boogalooing mood with his immortal 60s cat-and-mouse tale of the raton/rata, written for his classic album with Joe Cuba's Sextet, 10. Ray Barretto - Acid ‘Mr Hard Hands’ - New York's legendary salsa and Latin jazz conga player - with his astonishing 1967 crossover hit: two blasting trumpets and monumental percussion battles are still irresistible hooks. 11. Alegre All Stars - Manteca Eddie's brother Charlie Palmieri led this riotous descarga (jam session) group on piano in a free-style homage to Cuban conga player Chano Pozo, who named the tune after a hip 40s Cuban-New York word for marijuana. 12. Manny Oquendo Y Su Conjunto Libre - Que Humanidad Libre, bearers of the torch of classic, true-to-the-faith New York salsa, with all its infectious rhythms and perfect melding of solos, in one of their greatest hits. 13. Jose Alberto ‘El Canario’ - La Flor De La Canela One of Latin music's brightest stars, the singer known as ‘El Canario’ with his version of a classic Peruvian song. 14. Africando - Yaye Boy (Remix) Expansive West African vocals + swinging New York salsa musicians = Africando's brilliance. Their every album offers a new slant. This remix spread like bushfire through the world's salsa clubs. 15. Fulanito - Guallando The pioneering Dominican-New Yorkers, Fulanito from the dance music house of Cutting Records, revamped racing accordion-driven merengues with heavy basslines, behind party-time Spanglish raps. Notes by SUE STEWARD, June 2001 Sue Steward stumbled into salsa in 1979 - and became obsessed. She has written, broadcast and made tv programmes about it ever since. The culmination of the years of travelling, listening, interviewing, was her book ‘SALSA - MUSICAL HEARTBEAT OF LATIN AMERICA’ (published Thames & Hudson, 1999). It appeared in the US as ‘MUSICA - SALSA, RUMBA, MERENGUE AND MORE’ (published Chronicle Books, San Francisco). She is also the author for the new book 'Rough Guides to 100 Essential Latin CDs'. Compiled by Dj Martin Morales

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