The best Puerto Rican salsa tracks - your suggestions please

^ Excellent choicies MAMBO_CEC!! Woody's Blues was composed by the great jazz trumpet player Woody Shaw.

And that is one awesome track from Willie Rosario. Here's another great one...

 
azzey said:
If you want swing from Willie Rosario then this:


Doesn't really get going until 2:55 so give it a full listen!
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Yes!!! Jose Madera arrangement. Every trumpet player loves that intro... until you have to play it for yourself! LOL Dig the clave switcheroo on the mambo.
 
groovetpt said:
I think an argument can be made for a difference in sound and feel between the bands from New York and the bands from Puerto Rico in the 70's and 80's. I'm generalizing, but NYC bands had a harder aggressive sound and the PR bands were a bit more smooth and refined -- the really good bands all swung like crazy. There were more non-Puerto Rican ( and non-Latino ) musicians on the scene in New York which also had an effect ( eg, Barry Rogers, Larry Harlow, Lewis Kahn among countless others ).
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No I think you're right!!! I think all that changed with romantica, then both New York and Puerto Rico both developed a refined "cookie cutter" sound!!!
 
and this..


There's some nice piano improv at the beginning, cha cha comes in at 5:23 and Salsa at 6:52.
 
To me it all sounds a bit the same and a bit monotonous. Is that a good thing to people who love salsa? Do you like it so much that you do not need the surprise?
 
the said:
To me it all sounds a bit the same and a bit monotonous. Is that a good thing to people who love salsa? Do you like it so much that you do not need the surprise?
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So why don't you post something that's not monotonus and surprising? We are all open to hearing new stuff!! Most of us here listen to a LOT of salsa music and we are presenting here a small section of what we listen to. Surprise us!!
 
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MAMBO_CEC said:
So why don't you post something that's not monotonus and surprising? we are all open to hearing new stuff!! Most of us here listen to a LOT of salsa music and we are presenting here a small section of what we listen to. Surprise us!!
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It has to be something from puerto rico?
 
If you means something timba that would be no challenge at all of course but that is not really appropriate to this thread
 
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