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The New Swing Sextet (New
York)
A product of New York City and the excitement and turbulence
of the sixties, the New Swing Sextet made its professional debut
performing in the Singer Bowl at the last New York World's Fair
in 1965. The band has been a popular and innovative exponent of
Latin jazz, salsa and pop music for nearly four decades. |
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Sonora Carruseles (Colombia)
With only six albums to its credit and less than nine years of
existence, Colombia 's Sonora Carruseles has already perfected
a trademark sound that is cherished by salsa lovers all over the
world. There's some seriously powerful stuff to be found
in this album: spidery piano lines, tight poly rhythms,
explosive brass riffs, staccato cowbell patterns and impossibly
nasal choruses that are just hard to resist. Carruseles
pays a moving tribute to the spirit of old, hardcore salsa, while
at the same renewing this all but-forgotten style with the benefits
of digital technology. |
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