Juan Formell y los Van Van Egrem CD 0126 Coleccion Juan Formell Y Los Van Van – Vol. I Released: 1969 Reissue: 1995 Originally released in 1969 as Areito LDA-3320, “Música de Cuba” credited to Orquesta Los Van Van
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Arsenio Rodríguez – Primitivo (1965)
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Tamba Trio – Tamba Trio (1975)
Tamba Trio (self-titled) RCA 888430906624 Original release 1975 Reissue 2014 (EU) 1 – 3 Horas Da Manhã (Ivan Lins, Waldemar Correia) 2:42 2 Visgo De Jaca (Sergio Cabral, Rildo Hora) 2:35 3 Ou Bola Ou Bulica (Aldir Blanc, Joao Bosco) 2:12 4 Beira-Mar (Ivan Lins) 2:19 5 Olha Maria (Amparo) (A.C. Jobim) 4:45 6 Chorinho…
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival (1972/1996)
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Twenty-five years ago, when Jerry Garcia passed on this day in 1995, I was jaded and angry. Still reeling with unprocessed grief from the death of my only sibling a few years earlier, I had distanced myself from the scene I had once felt an affinity to (which had grown increasingly sketchy in the 1990s…