We'll celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Celia Cruz, Joe Bataan, and Willie Bobo, and we'll spend the second hour in conversation with pianist, composer, and director of the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Arturo O'Farrill, as we showcase tracks from their recent album, Virtual Birdland.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the vagaries of Spinitron, these songs are listed in reverse order. (i.e., Joan Armatrading Back to the Night is song 1, hour 1Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA
UpFront Soul #2021.39 playlist
Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 on RCA Mongo Santamaria "Ponce" from Live at Jazz Alley Arturo O'Farill& The Afro latin Jazz Orchestra "Cimarron" from Virtual Birdland Arturo O'Farill& The Afro latin Jazz Orchestra "Gulab Jamon" from Virtual Birdland Arturo O'Farill& The Afro latin Jazz Orchestra "Ana Mashoof" from Virtual Birdland Arturo O'Farill& The Afro latin Jazz Orchestra "Desert" from Virtual Birdland Bobby Matos "The Creator Has a Master Plan" from Bobby Matos Sessions Taina Asili "Resiliencia" from Resiliencia Chico O'Farrill "Voodoo Moon (Afro)" from Perlas Cubanas: Chico O'farrill Celia Cruz y La Sonora Matancera "Mi Bomba Son" Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra "Samba for Carmen" from Virtual Birdland Yelfris Valdes "Maktub" from For the Ones? Afro-Cuban All Stars "Elube Chango" from A Toda Cuba Le Gusta Dizzy Gillespie "Manteca" from The Essential Dizzy Gillespie Ray Barretto "Mercy, Mercy Baby" Black Sugar "Don't You Worry About a Thing" from Black Sugar II Willie Bobo "Snort of Green" from Hell Of An Act To Follow Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon "Willie Baby" from Fania Latin Boogaloo Essentials Orquestra el Macabeo "El Sueo" from Salsa Bestial Joe Bataan "Young, Gifted and Brown" from Joe Bataan Anthology Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from Back to the Night