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Shall We Begin…Happy 2024. The Best of 2023-Salsa/Latin Jazz/Musica Cubana-Luis Medina-Con Sabor KPFA

Posted on Jan 6, 2024

Shall We Begin…Happy 2024.  The Best of 2023-Salsa/Latin Jazz/Musica Cubana-Luis Medina-Con Sabor KPFA

Happy New Year everyone. It’s 2024 and I hope that you brought the New Year safe and sound! The following are my complete biased opinions of best recordings in Salsa, Latin Jazz, Musica Cubana during 2023. (and that came out in 2023!) I hope that this list will inspire you to catch up with great music that you haven’t caught up to during this impressive year. Be sure to keep listening to Con Sabor every Saturday evening from 9 to 11 pm except on the last Saturday of the month when Emiliano Echeveria and Radio Cuba Canta sits in for me. This list isn’t in any particular order but it’s simply the best music from 2023 in my humble opinion. LM

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Catching Up With All of You…Dec. 2023 News

Posted on Dec 25, 2023

Catching Up With All of You…Dec. 2023 News

I’m catching up with some important news since December has been so crazy busy for me. For one, I want to wish one of my great musical inspirations, piano master Eddie Palmieri, a happy 87th Birthday which he celebrated earlier this month on Friday, December 15th.

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Music News 12/9/2023

Posted on Dec 10, 2023

Music News 12/9/2023

I wish el maestro, Latin music Icon Eddie Palmieri a happy 87th Birthday this Friday December 15th. In Palmieri’s honor, I aired the first night of a two part Birthday salute to Eddie Palmieri on my program Con Sabor on KPFA 94.1 FM and www.kpfa.org. Part one aired last night, December 9th and the second part will be aired between 9 to 11 PM PST next Saturday evening, December 16th.

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Music Highlights for this Post Thanksgiving Week

Posted on Nov 26, 2023

Music Highlights for this Post Thanksgiving Week

Today Sunday, November 26rh, there will be a special appearance of Grammy Award winners Pacific Mambo Orchestra performing the music of Tito Puente, Machito and Tito Rodriguez…the Mambo Kings of the Palladium era at the Seahorse, 305 Harbor Drive in Sausalito starting at 5 pm. This will be a special afternoon to catch this great big band throwing down classic mambo and dance music for the dancers.

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