EL CABALLERO DE LA SALSA is a collection of classic tracks from salsa great Gilberto Santa Rosa. The album reflects his love for the classic salsa style of the the '60s and '70s in a performance like "Sin Voluntad," but also marks how that style...

Sincopa, the fifth album from Mexican rap group Cartel de Santa, put them clearly in the spotlight, and was the trio's first to go Top Ten in Mexico when it was released in 2010. ~ Steve Leggett

Recording information: Estudios San Angel.

Personnel: Gilberto Gil (violao); Sergio Chiavazzoli (banjo, cavaquinho).
Recording information: Estúdio Palco, RJ (04/2010).
Ten years after the live album Sao Joao Vivo on the same topic, Gilberto Gil again celebrates June's popular saints...

Personnel includes: Astrud Gilberto (vocals); Chet Baker (trumpet).
Personnel: Chet Baker (vocals, trumpet).
Liner Note Author: Mac Randall.
What's an Astrud Gilberto compilation without "The Girl from Ipanema"? And what's a chancy...

Personnel: Mark Shim (tenor saxophone); Vijay Iyer (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Carlo DeRosa (acoustic bass, electric bass); Justin Brown (drums, cymbals).
Audio Mixer: Mike Marciano.
Liner Note Author: Carlo DeRosa.
Recording information:...

Personnel: Rosa Passos (vocals, guitar); Ron Carter (bass); Billy Drewes (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Lula (guitar); Paulo Braga (percussion).
Personnel: Rosa Passos (vocals).
Rosa Passos made her recording debut as a leader in 1979, but this...

Recording information: Clinton Studios, NY; Grabado Estudios ABC Records-Barranquilla, Colombia; Guasábara Studios; Rolo Studios, Puerto Rico.
Gilberto Santa Rosa made his name after salsa had outgrown its rough street origins and become a...

Recording information: Casa Babilonia Records, Santa Catarina, N.L., México.
Sincopa, the fifth album from Mexican rap group Cartel de Santa, put them clearly in the spotlight, and was the trio's first to go Top Ten in Mexico when it was...

Personnel: Bem Gil (violao, pandeiro).
Recording information: Teatro Bradesco, Sao Paulo (09/28/2009/09/29/2009).
T... is no shortage of Gilberto Gil live albums, but then again each is a bit special and most tend to be pretty great. BandaDois...

Personnel: Astrud Gilberto (vocals); Walter Wanderley (piano, organ); Joao Gilberto (guitar); Jose Marino (bass); Claudio Slon (drums); Bobby Rosengarden (percussion).
As with the 2008 reissue of LOOK TO THE RAINBOW, Astrud Gilberto's 1967...

Personnel: Carlinhos Brown (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, synthesizer, drums, congas, bongos, agogo, claves, hi-hat, shaker, surdo, timbales, triangle, percussion, programming); Daniel Jobim (vocals, piano); Cézar Mendes, Pedro Baby...

Liner Note Author: Michael Saltzman.
Director: Rogério Duprat.
Arranger: Rogério Duprat.
By 1968, the Brazilian Tropicalia movement was well under way. Young upstarts like the genre-bending Os Mutantes and the provocative chanteuse Gal...