Mining the Audio motherlode continued

More from the wonderful WFMU:

Michi Sarmiento y Su Combo Bravo  ~  Salsa Con Monte
(Blog: Mi-Melodia)

Michi Gone!
“Along with infectious dance porros and cumbias, Michi y Sus Bravos specialized in rumbling guaguancós, descargas and hot covers of early salsa and boogaloo hits. Michi’s LPs on Discos Fuentes, brilliantly produced and recorded by Mario ‘Pachanga’ Rincón, were packed with fast-paced dancefloor burners featuring pumping bass, insistent montunos, sax solos and nasty metallic percussion.”  (Description from Soundway Records)

[None of the tracks on this LP are included on the spectacular Aqui Los Bravos compilaton from Soundway. If you dig this, be sure to pick up the Soundway disc.]

Also check out Musik-Kurier’s Sleepy Lagoon exotica mix.

On Mazel Tov Mis Amigos and San Francisco

Jeremiah Lockwood in Jewcy. Extract:

That night I played at Yoshi’s, the wonderful San Francisco jazz club, as part of the Idelsohn Society’s recreation of the 1961 album Mazel Tov Mis Amigos.  The album was made by a bunch of great Jazz and Latin players, including Doc Cheatham and Ray Barreto, playing Yiddish standards.  It was certainly a commercially motivated project, but the old record is very cool and the recreation concept is unique and fantastic.  The band was led by Arturo O’Farell, a great pianist and arranger and a lovely human being. Featured on the program were a bunch of special guests, including the legend of Fanya records and of the classic New York Salsa scene of the ’60s and ’70s, Larry Harlowe.  And I sang four songs.