It's Cal Tjader. Really hard to go wrong. And as a long time season ticket holder I for one am a fan of live at monterey recordings even if a lot of them are just festival jams. But this ensemble is solid. Seriously, Willie Bobo and Mongo plus Al McKibbon.

“Jazz Cigano Quinteto e Yamandu Costa” conquered an ocean of distance to be produced (Yamandu Costa lives in Portugal) and brings together compositions from the quintet and the guitarist…

This is the second album of Patricio Baeza Barrera, a chilean-born singer, guitarist, songwriter living in Hungary. On the album there are romantic Latin American hits, Baeza’s own compositions and two songs by David Fernando, written specifically for Patricio Baeza. In the world hit "Besame Mucho", Baeza's partner is his childhood friend, Marió Diaz Varas the Chilean tenor. “I want to make romance trendy again.” (Patricio Baeza)

Gilberto Gil is one of the greatest names in Brazilian popular music. His musical talents allow him to easily change styles and perform other music genres such as pop, rock, and reggae.

They'd been calling him "El Rey" for years, but Tito Puente really proved it on this, one of his best original LPs on Tico. Yes, this is the one with "Oye Como Va," one of the brightest, most exuberant Latin performances of the century, but El Rey Bravo has plenty of other features for Puente's tight pachanga orchestra…

The beloved, historic & previously unreleased recording by the famous Guitar Trio: Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia – ‘Saturday Night in San Francisco’ will be released on July 1st, 2022.

Released just six months after Gypsy '66, Gabor Szabo's second album as a leader (after leaving a sublime Chico Hamilton band that also included Charles Lloyd) remains one of his finest moments in the studio. Szabo utilized the tales of bassist Ron Carter and his old boss Hamilton on drums, as well as a pair of fine Latin percussionists – Willie Bobo and Victor Pantoja…

In Latin Heat the Francis Bay Orchestra has invested the greatest care in making a danceable, jazz-flavored, fresh, latin album. The brilliant piano of John Evans punctuates nearly every number.

Los Indios Tabajaras (The Tabajara Indians) was a guitar duo of two brothers, Antenor Lima and Natalicio (Nato) Lima, from Tianguá, Ceará in the Northeast of Brazil. The group name refers to the Tabajara, indigenous people who lived on the easternmost portion of the Atlantic coast of northeast Brazil in the period before and during Portuguese colonization, in the 16th century…

Nuna is a book of compositions for solo piano by Cuban-American pianist and composer David Virelles. A 2021 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Virelles has worked with musicians as distinct as Henry Threadgill, Andrew Cyrille, Ravi Coltrane, Mark Turner, Chris Potter, Tomasz Stanko, Steve Coleman, Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Tom Harrell and Milford Graves. His release Continuum (Pi 2012) was named the best jazz release of that year by The New York Times. After three esteemed releases on the ECM label, Virelles returned to Pi with Igbo Alakorin: The Singers Grove (2017), which was voted top Latin Jazz album in that year’s NPR Jazz Critics Poll.

Multi-GRAMMY® winning jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and both GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY® winning vocalist Aymée Nuviola present a collective mastery on their latest collaboration, Live in Marciac, due out May 27 on 5Passion Records. Live in Marciac captures an evocative and timeless live concert, full of Latin jazz classics and a few originals, from the duo’s 2021 tour performance at the Jazz in Marciac festival in France at the Chapiteau Concert Hall…

Maysa Figueira Monjardim (June 6, 1936 – January 22, 1977), better known as Maysa Matarazzo, was a Brazilian singer, composer, and actress. She is also associated with Bossa nova music but is widely known as a torch song (fossa) interpreter.