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 New Latinaires 3 (Ubiquity CD) |
New Latinaires 3 (Ubiquity CD) IIn order to bring new sounds to the dancefloor and hip listeners to our Latin jazz releases, we asked some of our favorite club-music producers to deliver tunes reflecting their influence and interest in Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and Latin jazz. |
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 DAVE PIKE "BOP HEAD" (Ubiquity CD) |
DAVE PIKE "BOP HEAD" (Ubiquity CD) Ubiquity is proud to present BOPHEAD as its first ever straight-ahead jazz release! Check out the rave review in CMJ!
"This vibe master has returned with an album that evokes the great jazz albums of yore from labels like Prestige and Fantasy. Pike's vibraphone style ranges from hepcat, bebop-oriented, wildly-swinging mallet madness to eloquent, swaying, melodic lines that can transport a dancing couple into wonderland. Pike's comeback is truly one of the remarkable jazz stories of this year. Dig it!"
-CMJ
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 DJ NOBODY "SOULMATES" (Ubiquity CD ") |
DJ NOBODY "SOULMATES" (Ubiquity CD ")
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 BABATUNDE LEA "MARCH OF THE JAZZ GORILLAS" |
BABATUNDE LEA "MARCH OF THE JAZZ GORILLAS" (Ubiquity CD) Babatunde Lea is a Bay Area percussionist, and an established session musician. He has worked alongside Pharaoh Sanders, Van Morrison, McCoy Tyner, Leon Thomas, Joe Henderson, John Tchicai, and Bobby Hutcherson, before recording an album for Ubiquity Jazz that will remind listeners that he is a skilled band leader, too.. |
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 P'TAAH "COMPRESSED BY LIGHT" (Ubiquity CD) |
P'TAAH "COMPRESSED BY LIGHT" (Ubiquity CD) "With P'taah's debut LP, "Compressed Light", innovative Ubiquity Records scores yet another stunning release, hot on the heels of its two New Latinaires compilations. Atlanta's P'taah (a.k.a. Chris Brann) is best known for his house work under the Wamdue Productions alias, but here he moves far into the leftfield terrain marked out in 1999 by J. Swinscoe's Cinematic Orchestra and Carl Craig's Innerzone Orchestra, where jazz meets the sampler and collaged strains pour over programmed beats. It's an unlikely merger, but here especially, it results in the deepest soul. Compressed Light treats the recording studio as the ultimate instrument. Listen to space unfold as sounds -- drumbreak, snaky bass line, stab of brass -- map the imaginary boundaries of the track, rebuilding the room around you in the unlikeliest of architectures. Tying together the farthest corners of the virtual room, warm, sun-drenched chords float, smolder and then burst into full flame. Brann, a virtuoso of the studio, turns the mixing deck into a space of alternate possibility, and Compressed Light is a wonder-filled celebration of that possibility. 5 out of 5."-ALTERNATIVE PRESS |
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 PURACANE "THINGS YOU SHOULD" (Ubiquity CD) |
PURACANE "THINGS YOU SHOULD" (Ubiquity CD) The debut album from NYC based Puracane. Beats and music by Skyjuice / Bugs man David Biegel and vocals by Ali Rogers. With breakbeat ballads and electronic torch songs, Puracane join the dots between pop and the sound of the underground. Includes a cover of the Jane's Addiction song “Summertime Roll” . Watch out for live dates at a venue near you! |
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 PAPO VAZQUEZ "AT THE POINT, VOL. 1 (Ubiquity CD) |
PAPO VAZQUEZ "AT THE POINT, VOL. 1 (CUBOP CD) New York style Latin jazz from the trombonist troubadour. |
 BOBBY MATOS "LIVE AT M.O.C.A." (Ubiquity CD) |
BOBBY MATOS "LIVE AT M.O.C.A." (CUBOP CD) Matos' fifth CuBop release, "Live at M.O.C.A.", was recorded live at the L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art and features new tracks plus re-workings of his earlier tunes. |
 "VIVA CUBOP" (Ubiquity CD) |
"VIVA CUBOP" (CUBOP CD) |
 FRANCISCO AGUABELLA "H2O" (Ubiquity CD) |
FRANCISCO AGUABELLA "H2O" (CUBOP CD) This ultra-rare and highly sought-after piece of Latin jazz history has finally been reissued for the world to experience! This CuBop re-release corrected previous mix problems; and the album was completely remixed and remastered "Francisco Aguabella's H2O, originally released on the Olm label in 1986 and long out of print, is the kind of forgotten gem that all too often stays that way. So Latin-jazz fans should thank their lucky stars that Cubop has seen fit to reissue it in all its fiery glory. H2O is a white-hot recording that showcases precisely why Aguabella, a master percussionist who was born in Matanzas, Cuba, and who has been a driving force in Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban music since his U.S. arrival in 1957, is a certified living legend. Bristling with tight salsa arrangements that spotlight Aguabella's topnotch ensemble (including Nengue Hernandez on timbales and vocals and trombonist Dan Weinstein, who's also appeared with Aguabella to great effect on 1999's Agua de Cuba), H2O still leaves plenty of room for Aguabella to shine. "Wood Place" intertwines a delicious piano montuno with some thrilling interplay between Aguabella's congas and the horn section, "Nena" boasts some tricky unison vocal work from Hernandez, Aguabella, and Orlando Lopez, and "Danzonette" presents Aguabella's riveting take on the classic Cuban danzon style. About the only quibble with H2O is its woeful lack of information in the packaging--surely not Cubop's fault, as the album was licensed from a small, fly-by-night label, but missed nonetheless. Still, as anyone who hears this will agree, that's a minor point: the music here is enough." -Ezra Gale, Amazon.com |
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 JOHN SANTOS "TRIBUTE TO THE MASTERS" (Ubiquity CD) |
JOHN SANTOS "TRIBUTE TO THE MASTERS" (CUBOP CD) John Santos is one of the foremost proponents of Afro-Latin music in the world today. This tribute to acknowledged masters of Afro-Latin and jazz features Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Orestes Villato, Wayne Wallace and more. The new John Santos & Machete album is titled "Tribute to the Masters" and salutes acknowledged masters of the jazz and Afro-Cuban worlds. Cubop is proud to have released this recording on February 8th, 2000. |
 THE JAZZ ON THE LATIN SIDE ALL STARS VOL. 1 (Ubiquity CD) |
THE JAZZ ON THE LATIN SIDE ALL STARS VOL. 1
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On January 7th 2000, 28 of LA's top Latin jazz musicians were brought together by Rizo at B.B King's Club in Universal Studios to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of his radio program. The capacity audience was treated to what was to become a historical, once-in-a-lifetime event--the birth of the Jazz on the Latin Side All-Stars. The musicians, feeling the overwhelming enthusiasm from the audience and the friendly competitiveness between each other, pushed themselves to take their individual and collective performances to a higher level. For one night, B.B. King's was transformed into a single sweltering mass of music lovers--dancing, sweating, grooving to what everyone knew would probably never occur again. Fortunately CuBop Records was on hand to record it. |
 RAY ARMANDO "MALLET HANDS" |
RAY ARMANDO "MALLET HANDS" (CUBOP CD) IIt's hard to believe that someone with as much musical depth and history as Ray Armando has never released an album of his own. He has worked with some of the brightest stars in jazz and Latin music and is respected worldwide as an arranger and percussionist of the highest caliber. |
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 VIVA CUBOP 2 (CuBop CD) |
VIVA CUBOP 2 (CUBOP CD)
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 BOBBY MATOS AND JOHN SANTOS (CUBOP CD) |
BOBBY MATOS AND JOHN SANTOS (CUBOP CD) Johnny's second album. A huge dose of Mambo Madness. |
 SNOWBOY AND THE LATIN SECTION "PARA PUENTE " (CUBOP CD) |
SNOWBOY AND THE LATIN SECTION "PARA PUENTE " (CUBOP CD) DJ, music critic, journalist, promoter and bandleading UK conguero Snowboy is back with a heavyweight hard-hitting tribute to Tito Puente, the King of Mambo! "Para Puente"! What more of a personal tribute can you pay someone than name your album after them? "Para Puente" is a way of acknowledging how much inspiration Tito Puente, the King of Mambo, gave and continues to give to Snowboy.. |
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 PAPO VAZQUEZ "CARNIVAL IN SAN JUAN" (CUBOP CD) |
PAPO VAZQUEZ "CARNIVAL IN SAN JUAN" (CUBOP CD) "Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's redefined Latin jazz!" - Michael Brecker |