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Nah, I wouldn't go that far. The one thing that validates it is that it's out of print. No way to get a copy of that. So I suppose it could be considered a public service announcement and I overreacted. :)

It is, but it's also a copyright infringement. I'd much rather use YouTube videos that aren't theft.

Awesome. I remember my first time. And how badly my hands hurt the next day. :o

No, I would say reggaeton vocals come from rumba -- or at least from the same milieu from which rumba came. But that it's possible there is a "rebound" so to speak.

I think it may be vice versa. :) Kind of like how American English influences British English at times.

Yanni has a salsa album?

By the way, I was in line at Navarro's in Little Havana and the guy in front of me had a Gloria Estefan tour jacket on. It was Cachao.

Considering he played with Frank Emilio y Los Amigos it wouldn't be too much a stretch to say he was A father of Latin jazz. THE father I think would be tough. Anyways, he was one of the guys that first got me into this stuff.

Wow, you found a gem. Roncona is famous as you will often hear when people sing of "Roncona, Mulence, y Andrea Baro" (De La Habana a Matanzas et al). It could columbia, but given the time of the recording it could also be guaguanco. It's my understanding that the rhythms were shared across time...

Harmonically, there is nothing to argue about. It's 100% European. Melodically I suppose you could make an argument for predominantly African influence. But it seems like an uphill battle. I'd love to hear more though.

Bolero. At least going by the first song. 47 minutes is pretty long. :)

Same can be said of akpones. Used to be quite a few female ones. Maybe even a majority. Now, I can't think of one.

Bobby McFerrin has a TedTalk showing just how instinctive pentatonic scale is. Pretty interesting if you haven't seen it. Oh . . . and my musicology professor used a record player. Young whippersnappers.

Probably still is! :)

New Orleans is a Caribbean port city. :)

I think if you dug into it, you would find the melodic and harmonic roots of son and son montuno in Europe, not Africa. So a connection between son (montuno) and blues is probably a stretch. What IS interesting is the connection between the AAB 12 bar form of blues and the rhythm/songs for...

No . . . BUT . . . if you swing it don't you think it would sound a lot like it? I mean I can really hear the influence of jazz.

Nice that she took notes better than I did. :)

Let's see if I can remember it well enough . . . The first is the piano part at the beginning. That is a defining characteristic of guaguanco de salon. The second is the trumpets when they enter. They are basically playing an instrumental version of the diana of rumba guaguanco. I can't...

I like comment that Arsenio was part of American swing. He lived in NYC off and on (and Tampa) and surely played non-Cuban music now and then. I'm still floored by Scott Joplin and how piano montunos seem to come straight out of him.