The best Puerto Rican salsa tracks - your suggestions please

[azzey]

Absolutely love the Salsa music of Puerto Rico!

Looking for more recommendations of bands and tracks to listen to.

I feel I've been in the Timba wasteland too long. LOL.

I'll start:

Post your favourite tracks.

If there's a thread already existing, post links to that.

 

[MAMBO_CEC]

Careful!!! hope your're not stirring up another hornet's nest...should'nt that be AFRO-CUBAN music with a Puerto Rican tinge!!! (Just kidding Azzey). I like this one:

 

[azzey]

http://www.descarga.com/cgi-bin/db/archives/Article20

 

[GroovyMambo]

 

[Delight]

Abayarde did a Puerto Rico Special in November last year on Salsa De La Mata with songs on Puerto Rico which was pretty awesome and I still listen to it regularly. Love those pulsing rhythms.

http://www.salsaforums.com/threads/salsa-de-la-mata-the-ustream-show.16918/page-38#post-259691

Here's "Déjame Soñar" by Tito Puente & Tony Vega which was also in that set. Pretty neat to see the Eddie Torres Dancers in action.

 

[azzey]

Abayarde did a Puerto Rico Special in November last year on Salsa De La Mata with songs on Puerto Rico which was pretty awesome and I still listen to it regularly. Love those pulsing rhythms.

http://www.salsaforums.com/threads/salsa-de-la-mata-the-ustream-show.16918/page-38#post-259691

Thanks, I'll definitely check that out when I have a few moments.

 

[groovetpt]

Careful!!! hope your're not stirring up another hornet's nest...should'nt that be AFRO-CUBAN music with a Puerto Rican tinge!!! (Just kidding Azzey). I like this one:

Great song of La Sonora Ponceña. That performance is from Colombia with excellent Colombian musicians. For me, the definitive live version is from the Ponceña 50 anniversary concert when Luisito reunited to perform Yare. Awesome trumpet solo from guest artist Luis Aquino ( one of the very best trumpet players from Puerto Rico ).

 

[calichris10]

 

[groovetpt]

Two hours and twenty minutes of pure Puerto Rican Salsa bliss... with Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound.

 

[MAMBO_CEC]

EEEEEESO!!! you have good taste calichris10, This is an awesome thread!!!

 

[calichris10]

 

[azzey]

I raise you.

 

[calichris10]

EEEEEESO!!! you have good taste calichris10, This is an awesome thread!!!

Thanks! He is one of my favs! Here is an interesting clip where for the first time he realizes people know his music and it brings him to tears and he cant sing. Makes me cry when I watch it.

 

[calichris10]

I raise you.

He was so Awesome...His voice gives me goosebumps...No one sang like him or ever will. "El Diferente" !!!!

 

[calichris10]

 

[MAMBO_CEC]

Not to be nitpicky!!! Do Fania days Count?

 

[calichris10]

Not to be nitpicky!!! Do Fania days Count?

I hope so cause my last post was from those glory days!!! The majority of the musicians then were Puerto Rican or Puerto Rican Americans.

 

[MAMBO_CEC]

Abayarde did a Puerto Rico Special in November last year on Salsa De La Mata with songs on Puerto Rico which was pretty awesome and I still listen to it regularly. Love those pulsing rhythms.

http://www.salsaforums.com/threads/salsa-de-la-mata-the-ustream-show.16918/page-38#post-259691

Here's "Déjame Soñar" by Tito Puente & Tony Vega which was also in that set. Pretty neat to see the Eddie Torres Dancers in action.

Love Love this song.....warm and fuzzies all over, I don't know of anyother nationality that has such beautiful odes to their patria!!! Also there are so many Vid clips on youtube of Magna dancing to this song and she always does it justice..love it!!!

 

[azzey]

Abayarde did a Puerto Rico Special in November last year on Salsa De La Mata with songs on Puerto Rico which was pretty awesome and I still listen to it regularly. Love those pulsing rhythms.

http://www.salsaforums.com/threads/salsa-de-la-mata-the-ustream-show.16918/page-38#post-259691

Unfortunately the links to the show are broken. I seem to recall listening to the show at the time but would be nice for a re-listen. Have to settle for manual playing from the track list.

 

[azzey]

I hope so cause my last post was from those glory days!!! The majority of the musicians then were Puerto Rican or Puerto Rican Americans.

Of course.