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Gift for a king: 5-disc set commemorates Tito Puente’s 90th birthday
Jazz had Dukes and Counts. Latin music had one King. And hype aside, by the time of his death in 2000 at age 77, Tito Puente was an icon.
Puente, who would have turned 90 on April 20, had the substance and the style.
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Mercedes Sosa: "Cantora," and
a celebration of a life in music
It’s perhaps fitting that Cantora, simply woman singer in Spanish, turns out to be the last recording by Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, who died of kidney and liver failure, Sunday, October 4, at a clinic in Buenos Aires. She was 74.
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Trans Music, Transatlantic Style
Traditions are kept alive by constant change. The roots music of the 21st century is being created as much with electric guitars, sequencers and laptops as with drums and flutes.
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See No Evil. Cry for Argentina
I had a flash of people chasing after me, grabbing me. I imagined insults, punches, kicks. It was 1976, I was 22 again, the cops and the military had life and death powers over me and this place was a police garage but also El Olimpo, The Olympus, one of the clandestine concentration camps in Buenos Aires, a place of torture and death. |
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Pianist Bebo Valdés, giant of Cuban music, dies at 94
Cuban pianist, arranger and composer Bebo Valdés, 94, a multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winner who was one of the last major figures of the golden era of Cuban music, died Friday in Stockholm. The cause was pneumonia, according to Nat Chediak, a producer and author who worked extensively with Valdés and became a close friend.
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Isabel Allende
Latin America’s Sheherazade
Her answers and gestures add up to intriguing paradoxes: a no-nonsense romantic, a tough survivor with manicured nails, a hopeful cynic, a feminist in high heels, a writer who writes to remember but, on a whim or a dare, would just as soon reinvent her memories. "I've always told stories," she says with a wave of her hand. "They used to call me a liar. Now that I write books, they call me a narrator." |
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Eddie Palmieri, a giant of Latin jazz, plays South Florida Saturday
Feisty innovators rarely age gracefully into honored masters, but in a career spanning 50 years, Nuyorican pianist, composer and bandleader Eddie Palmieri has seen his once-radical ideas shape the sound of Afro-Caribbean, Latin jazz and Latin dance music.
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Bertolucci returns to Rome to explore the power of love, trascending "otherness'
In Besieged, the new film by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, a peculiar love story plays out over a profound cultural chasm. …
"I'm a bit obsessed by the curiosity for the 'other,'" says Bertolucci from his home in Rome. "But I'm interested in otherness as a seductive factor, not as a reason to fear. What I've found is that the first step of knowing the other one is to accept him or her." |
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Pianist and composer Fred Hersch is one of the most important jazz musicians of his generation.
But that's just part of his story.
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The art of consensus
It's a late Friday morning at Britto Central on Lincoln Road and a casually elegant couple is being led around the gallery by an attendant, price list in hand.
In the small office in the back of the gallery, the phone rings nonstop. |
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