Here's some terrific salsa, with roots in both Cuba and Colombia, recorded in the Netherlands. With singers Fabian Nodarse, Nando Vanin, and coroista Alberto Caicedo. Also with percussionists Gerardo Rosales and Nils Fischer, timbaleros Jose "Pepe" Espinosa and Armando Vidal, pianist Marc Bischoff, three trombonists and many others. Highly Recommended Learn More
Grupo Caribe is a swinging Mambo Salsa Dance Band! The band performs traditional Salsa dance music with pulsating percussive riffs, steady piano and bass montuno vamps, adorned by a rhythmic and melodic brass section, and full- bodied vocals, reminiscent of the 60's and 70's. Learn More
Great Colombian band (well, based in Miami, with musicians from all over the world) that merges the power of Fania era salsa with modern Colombian blast-off swing. Great singing, cool nasal coros, Colombian style, great band, good material, including a medley of Hector Lavoe's "La Murga" and "Che Che Cole," plus classic tunes like Ray Barretto's "Nadie Se Salva da La Rumba," and a bunch of originals. This is letter perfect salsa, no mistakes, no bad tempos, no intonation problems; everything's for dance euphoria, percussion slapping away, the coros accentuating the proceedings, the singer winding his way through the backdrops, everything coming together in a non-stop festival. Highly Recommended. (review by Descarga) Learn More
Cross cultural meeting, led by the German pianist Gunther Bruck, who can bring a band together, that's for sure. Recorded mostly in Brooklyn, the album features some heavyweights from Venezuela, including the brothers Quintero, Luisito and Robert, along with Nelson Gonzalez on tres, and the Colombian/Austrian bassist Juan Garcia-Herreros. The music's really flexible, dropping into timba breaks, then moving into salsa; it's made by masters, and you can tell. Learn More