For 30 years, people have been gathering in New York's Central Park every Sunday afternoon to celebrate the rumba. These days it's a mixture of Nuyorican and Cuban musicians who do the drumming and singing, and Eddie Bobè has brought together some of the top Big Apple percussionists to offer the sound of two hands clapping (on skin). This isn't Latin jazz; it's much more basic, and in many ways more beautiful. Most of the tracks are just percussion and voice, raw but also very rich (not to mention well recorded). On the tracks with additional instruments, the percussion almost seems like an intrusion, albeit a glorious one. Five percussionists and three voices are all you really need to get the hips swaying and the feet moving, and before you know it you're doing the rumba! With a beat this hot, it's enough to get the melting pot boiling over. --Chris Nickson
Central Park Rumba,Eddie Bobe,Piranha,Latin Music,Tropical
Latin Music:
- Coleccion 78 R.P.M: 1927 - 1962 Voces Femeninas V.2 [Import]
- Coleccion 78 R.P.M: 1929 - 1961 Voces Femeninas V.1 [Import]
- Coleccion de Oro [Box set]
- Como Nadie
- Con La Banda Costena
- Con Mariachi: Coleccion De Oro [Box set]
- Con Todo el Sabor
- Da' Crew
- Disco De Oro, Vol. 2
- Dispuesto a Cambiar
Latin Music
Calendar Girl Pt.2 [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
English Song Series - Gustav Holst - Song Cycles, Vedic Hymns; 12 Humbert Wolfe Settings
John Knowles Paine: St. Peter (Oratorio), Op. 20
Music: L'Art d'Otakar Jérémias (conductor) - Volume 1 - Smet
Little River Band/Diamantina Cocktail [Import]
Daniel-Lesur: Orchestral Works
Here's the Answer [Import] [Original recording remastered]
Jazz Masters 3 [Box set] [Import]