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Thanks for taking the time to link those, I was hoping for more emphasis on the latin aspect - traditional forms and beats played by excellent musicians, as my random searching on youtube is throwing up mixed results.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puN0ebZfT_k

This is one of the better offerings I've found so far - I'm wanting to expand my style bag, and have always felt that internalising by listening to the best sources is a good approach, but I'm woefully ignorant about traditional latin music, latin jazz fusion and whatnot, so was hoping for some guidance on artists/albums even online learning materials.

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Joao Bosco, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Celia Cruz, Ozomatli, Airto Moriera, Flora Purim, Dave Valentin, Israel 'Cachao' Lopez, Orlando 'Cachaito' Lopez, The Fort Apache Big Band, Ray Barretto, Robin Jones Latin Sextet, Luis Bonfa, the Buena Vista Social Club, Tito Puente, Afro Cuban All Stars, Santana, Ruben Blades, Ruben Gonzalez, Ibrahim Ferrer....

Come back when you have looked at that lot and I will suggest some more.

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What Bilbo said............lol.....
Listen, listen, and keep listening.

Funkyifying the Clave, is a good book & DVD for getting your teeth into (funky) Latin,
that is If you are having trouble getting to grips with the style(s) ear wise.
And it will not be something you will grab over night.

http://youtu.be/x42JE5mZWH4

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Excellent list by Bilbo, just a couple of additions:

The fantastic cuban piano player Michel Camilo, with Anthony Jackson on bass.
http://youtu.be/uv6QB6-QfqM

An example of Joao Bosco, first on Bilbo's list:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk_CghlLAr4"]http://youtu.be/Tk_CghlLAr4[/url]

The basis of the band in the previous vid is "Nosso Trio" with [size=4][font=arial, sans-serif]Ney Conceição[/font][/size]
on bass. Here is more with only the trio:
http://youtu.be/52HhBYgJlN0

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[quote name='alibabu' timestamp='1404391250' post='2492208']
Excellent list by Bilbo, just a couple of additions:

The fantastic cuban piano player Michel Camilo, with Anthony Jackson on bass.


An example of Joao Bosco, first on Bilbo's list:
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk_CghlLAr4"]http://youtu.be/Tk_CghlLAr4[/url]

The basis of the band in the previous vid is "Nosso Trio" with [font=arial, sans-serif]Ney Conceição[/font]
on bass. Here is more with only the trio:

[/quote]

Sorry to be a nitpicker but Michael Camilo is not cuban, he's my compatriot from Dominican Republic.

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[quote name='Mcgiver69' timestamp='1404392295' post='2492221']
Sorry to be a nitpicker but Michael Camilo is not cuban, he's my compatriot from Dominican Republic.
[/quote]
That´s not nitpicking, that is correction of an embarrassing mistake. I don´t even have a valid excuse, just that he has played a lot with cuban musicians...

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Check out a British Cuban band called [url="http://www.sonyambu.com/"]Son Yambu[/url], just spent a week with them at a world music festival in Borneo and they were at Glastonbury too. All really great players, serious grooves happening and you can go and see them in the flesh! They're playing in Manchester on 19th July if that's anywhere near your bit of Sunny Yorkshire.

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I don't think of Joao Bosco, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Luis Bonfa as what i would describe simply as Latin music. All are in the MPB ( Musica Popular Brasiliera) section of my music collection which is a whole seperate genre to me.

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Funky Latin Grooves?

Do you mean Banda, Bolero, Bossa Nova, Choro, Compas, Duranguense, Frevo, Forro, Guaracha, Lambada, Merengue, Music Popular Brasiliera, Nuevo Cancion, Salsa, Samba, Son, Tango or Nuevo Tango plus numerous others?

Latin covers a massive amount of musical genres.

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I thought the "Latin (American) Music" term just described any Spanish and Portuguese language genres.
Then geography wise you then get into the localised styles, Tango, Merengue, Salsa, Bachata, Bossa, etc etc,
and of course all the various Cuban Rhythms.

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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1404424797' post='2492624']
I thought the "Latin (American) Music" term just described any Spanish and Portuguese language genres.
Then geography wise you then get into the localised styles, Tango, Merengue, Salsa, Bachata, Bossa, etc etc,
and of course all the various Cuban Rhythms.
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When the term world music (whatever that is) got trendy in the 80s Latin Music was mainly considered as Salsa, Cuban, Ruben Blades, Tito Puente etc. Brazilian music was a different genre altogether. I suppose all these terms are made up by the music industry, music journalists or record shops. A bit like Freakbeat records which no one ever called Freakbeat when it was released in the 60s!!!

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[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1404423050' post='2492601']
I don't think of Joao Bosco, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Luis Bonfa as what i would describe simply as Latin music. All are in the MPB ( Musica Popular Brasiliera) section of my music collection which is a whole seperate genre to me.
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They are what they are and all play a much wider scope than pure pop. Bossa, Samba, Samba Reggae blah, blah, blah. Given the nature of trhe query, I think this level of detail is premature. They were included in the list because they come under the umbrella of Latin Music (and are all featured in encyclopedias of Latin Music accordingly).

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKChV_aBLcc[/media]

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