Salsa SF Radio: WorldSalsaRadio.com celebrates
Now the new SF Area based 24 hour salsa internet radio station WorldSalsaRadio.com transmits Salsa, Timba and Latin Jazz under the Afro Latin Music brand on a 24 hour basis with daily programs hosted by Radio DJ’s interspersed with hot programmed music.
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New Music that just came out for the holidays: Los Van Van (a.k.a. Formell y Los Van Van) celebrates their 50 anniversary with their new recording “Mi Songo” on Egrem which features new recorded versions of twelve of their iconic hits including “Sandunguera”, “Anda Van Y Muevete”, “Azucar”, “Se Muere De Sed La Tia”, “Resolucion”, “Recaditos No” and more!
read moreCon Sabor Playlist 12/5/2020
Con Sabor featured a power packed show fueled by a rousing start by the legendary maestro Johnny Pacheco and ended by the hot Latin Jazz by English pianist Alex Wilson. Sandwiched within these smokin’ bookends was a program full of explosive Salsa, percolating Latin Jazz and Musica Cubana pa’ Bailar y Gozar.
read moreSabiduria Con Tumbao playlist 12/2/2020
Sabiduria Con Tumbao gave tribute to great Latin piano from Peruchin to Noro Morales to Eddie Palmieri to Chucho Valdes and many others in the first hour. The Six at 6 pm was a salute to that beautiful musical form, the bolero.
read moreSabiduria Con Tumbao playlist 11/25/2020
This week, Sabiduria Con Tumbao gave Part One of a salute to the swinging trombone players in Salsa featuring everyone from Beny More’s Generoso Jimenez to Spanish Harlem Orchestra’s Doug Beavers and all the great trombonists in-between. The Six at 6 pm salute was to the legendary bandleader and one of the co-founders of Fania Records, Johnny Pacheco!
read moreCon Sabor Playlist 11/21/2020
Hi Everyone, I featured new music to the program this week by the trombone powerhouse Papo Vasquez and his Pirates and Troubadours, Gabrielito Gonzalez Y La Verdad, Grupo Niche from their Latin Grammy award winning “40”, Jaime Andres featuring Frankie Vasquez and SF Bay Area based Venezolanos Lali Mejia y Bululu w/Henry Linares & Agelvis Sanchez Dava.
read moreMusic Notes 11/22/2020
WorldSalsaRadio.com has completed 4 months on the air! The station features a mix of personalities made up of established radio personalities, salsa congress DJ’S, musicians and ethnomusicologists from around the world. The station broadcasts 24 hours every day and the program schedule and profiles of the DJ’s are available on the web site.
read moreSabiduria Con Tumbao Playlist 11/18/2020
This week, Sabiduria Con Tumbao gave a salute to Salsa music’s “El Diferente”..Angel Canales. Canales’s own brew of jazz infused Salsa filled with driving rhythms, sophisticated arrangements and long solos locked within swinging melodies with killer hooks. Canales had a mystique with his exotic looks and nasal sounding voice that fascinated audiences yet he achieved bigger success outside of the U.S. especially in Latin America. The Six at 6 pm focused on great all star collaborations between international Salsa and Latin Jazz musicians and Cuban vocalists.
read moreSabiduria Con Tumbao Playlist 11/11/2020
This week’s Sabiduria Con Tumbao featured Salsa Flamenca…the collaboration between Spanish Flamenco vocalists and Salsa artists from Colombia, Cuba, Panama and Venezuela. The Six at 6 pm segment gave tribute to the late, great Pete “El Conde” Rodriguez. You can access past programs at www.WorldSalsaRadio.com.
read moreCon Sabor Playlist 11/14/2020
San Francisco Bay Area’s own Latin Music Renaissance man John Santos was my special guest in the first hour of Con Sabor this week. We had a great conversation talking about his latest recording with his sextet Art Of The Descarga on Smithsonian Folkways, his life dealing with the pandemic, his thoughts on how the public can support musicians and artists, his memories about his close friend, late Santana conguero Raul Rekow and his thoughts about the passing of conga legend Candido Camero.
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