clandestino playlist 2/16...for joe cuba!!!!

thanks much to my guest djs...bongohead and 13yr old dj fruit loop!! also, dj B-COMING came thru at the late hour and blessed us with some of his selections! between photographers in the studio, djs everywhere, prank calls coming in, and celebrating the musical life of joe cuba, we really had a lot going on. thanks to all who came with respekt!

playlist 2/16...dedicated to the late joe cuba

it goes like this:
(artist/ song/ album/ label)

joe cuba sextet/ ritmo de joe cuba/ recuerdos de mi querido barrio/ tico

joe cuba sextet/ give us a chance/ hecho y durecho/ tico

joe cuba sextet/ psychedelic baby/ my man speedy/ tico

joe cuba sextet/ la calle esta durisima/ hecho y durecho/ tico

cheo feliciano w/joe cuba sextet/ el ratón/ la herencia/ fania



joe cuba sextet/ do you feel it?/ bustin' out/ tico
since reissued by vampisoul

joe cuba sextet/ el pito/ we must be doing something right/ tico
an all time jam...this one's been with me since i was a kid

joe cuba sextet/ so what?/ comin' at you?/ seeco

joe cuba sextet/ bang bang/ bang bang push push push/ tico

joe cuba sextet/ pud-da-din/ bustin' out/ tico

joe cuba sextet/ elube chango/ cocinando la salsa/ tico
thanks to bongohead for sheding some light on the legend

joe bataan/ mestizo/ king of latin soul/ vampisoul

joe bataan/ johnny's no good/ king of latin soul/ vampisoul



joe bataan/ rap-o clap-o 2008/ king of latin soul/ vampsioul
some songs from the brand new joe bataan. recorded with los fulanos, this gives updates on old songs

and now we turn over the controls to dj fruit loop:
common/ universal mind control/ universal mind control/ geffen

gipsy/ chavale romale/ v/a--gypsy garden 2/ lola's world



filastine/ b'tallah (featuring rabah)/ dirty bomb/ soot

x plastas/ dunia dudumizi/ v/a--rough guide to tanzania/ world music network
tanzanian rap

the bamboos/ rawville/ rawville/ tru thoughts
thanks fruit loop for bringing the music

dj B-COMING brings it in here:
shirley bassey/ spinning wheel (dj spinna rmx)/ a riot on old street/ BBE

augustus pablo/ aquarious rock/ v/a--aquarious rock/ pressure sounds

cedric "im" brooks/ give rasta glory/ v/a--100% dynamite/ soul jazz

cymande/ bird/ second time around/ janus



ahmed abdul-malik/ el ghada/ east meets west/ RCA victor

fernando gelbard/ alevacolariea/ didi/
thanks B-COMING for those jams

funkadelic/ the goose that laid the golden egg/ toys/ westbound

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Joe Cuba, RIP

NYC salsa band leader Joe Cuba dies at 78


from an AP article:



By Laura N. Perez Sanchez, Associated Press Writer
SAN JUAN — Salsa band leader Joe Cuba, dubbed the "Father of Latin Boogaloo" for weaving a fluid, bilingual mix of musical influences, died Sunday in New York City, a member of his group said. He was 78.

The musician, a friend and contemporary of the late salsa giant Tito Puente, died from complications of a persistent bacterial infection at Mount Sinai Medical Center a day after doctors disconnected his life support, said Cheo Feliciano, a longtime friend and singer in the Joe Cuba Sextet. Cuba had fought the infection for several years.

Born Gilberto Calderon in 1931 in New York to a family from Puerto Rico, the band leader and conga player helped change the sound of salsa in the 1960s, Feliciano said.

Until then, most popular salsa had been played by orchestras, he said. But Cuba led a six-member band with three singers who also played percussion and danced a routine.

"He had a dynamic group," with a signature vibraphone-fronted sound that "caused a craze because it was different," Feliciano said. Albums such as 1966's Bang! Bang! Push, Push, Push incorporated elements of salsa, Latin jazz and R&B and featured lyrics in both English and Spanish.

Cuba, whose musical career took him on world tours, was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame and became director of the International Salsa Museum in New York's East Harlem.

In his 70s, he was confined to a sick bed for three years after contracting a staph bacterial infection while being treated for asthma at a hospital. After care in hospitals, a nursing home and at his New York home, he resumed performing in 2006.

Feliciano said he spoke to Cuba by telephone from Puerto Rico just before Cuba died.

"I told him that God has a mission for all of us, and when we've come to the end of the mission, we have to go to the place we came from," said Feliciano, who debuted as a singer in the sextet in 1957.

The band leader's remains are expected to be interred in Puerto Rico.