Afro-Latin radio

Afro-Cuban culture, Blog, Cuba, Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz, Video and audio

One way to learn more about Cuban and Afro-Latin music is to take advantage of some of the excellent radio shows on the subject.

Here’s a short list of ones that you can stream via the Internet from anywhere on earth.

If you know of any other good programs that are streamable, please write us and we’ll add them to the list.

WWPV.org  (Cuban)

Sundays Noon to 3 PM
‘Cuban Bridge” with Toni Basanta
An erudite and enjoyable three hours from one of the world’s most enthusiastic and informed experts on Cuba’s music past, present, and to come

WBAI.org  (Pan Latin)

Tuesdays 10 AM to 12 PM
New York International with Al Angeloro

Saturdays 3 PM to 6 PM
New World Gallery with “Chico” Alvarez

Sundays 3 PM to 6 PM
Con Sabor Latino with Nando Albericci + Marysol Cerdeira

Note: Many of these programs are also archived

WKCR.org  (Pan Latin)

Mondays 10 PM to 12 AM
Caribe Latino

Tuesdays 12 AM to 1 AM
Latin Jazz Hour

Wednesdays 10 PM to 11 PM
Nueva Cancion y Demas

Wednesdays 11 PM to 1 AM
Som do Brasil

KRTU (Pan Latin)

Every Sunday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm (Central Time)

The Latin Jazz Brunch with Henry Brun Airs from: San Antonio, Texas and also streams live online and is archived. The program has been on the air for 15 years.

Salsa Warriors (Pan Latin)

Last but not least, there’s this 24/7 option. We especially recommend Que Viva La  Music with Vicki Sola, Marysol Cerdeira and Andres Padua.

Afro-Latin music venues

For Afro-Latin music venues in New York City (the northern most outpost of the Caribbean), click here: Afro-Latin music venues in New York City

– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube

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Tata Güines (Federico Aristides Soto)

Afro-Cuban culture, Blog, Cuba, Cuban Jazz, Latin Jazz, Video and audio

One of the highlights of my March 2016 trip to Cuba was visiting the small city of Güines, a major historical center of Cuba’s sugar industry, 50 kilometers southeast of Havana.

The city center has a beautiful town square and many handsome private homes and is the birthplace of not one but two Cuban music legends: Tata Güines and Arsenio Rodríguez.

By an accident of fate, the two were raised so closely together, if you have a good arm you could throw a rock from Tata Guines’s childhood home, (a one room former slave cell) to Arsenio’s childhood home, (a small house on the street just beyond the barracks compound.)

Along with Chano Pozo and Patato Valdés, Güines, who was born in 1930, is considered one Cuba’s greatest masters of the tumbadora, the conga drum.

Fortunately, there’s a lot of excellent video of his work.

First, Güines with a group of friends (“Los Amigos”): pianist (Frank Emilio), flautist, (Miguel O’Farril), bassist (Chachuito) and timablero (Guillermo Barreto).

Güines tells a bit of his life story which is followed by a solo

Güines with the legendary rumba group Yoruba Abdado and Changuito (filmed in 2002)

And now, for a lesson from the master.

Spanish and/or French will come in handy here. If not an attentive pair of eyes and ears will help.

Want more instruction?

Good!

Whether you play or are simply someone who loves and is fascinated by the music, this tutorial with Changuito (José Luis Quintana) and Giovanni Hidalgo will change your ears – for the better – forever.

Click here: Inside the Conga

– Ken McCarthy
Jazz on the Tube

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