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Kekele: Kinavana
by Norman Weinstein
This extraordinary album of Congolese rumbas from a quintet of musical veterans with about 200 years of musical experience among them is an enthralling musical lesson. As much as the rumba is usually identified as quintessentially Cuban, it has historic roots in the Congo. When Congolese music fans began seriously listening to recordings of Cuban rumba in the '50s, they had the uncanny sense that their own musical heritage was returning to them in a transfigured form. The rumba swept ...
read moreThe Manhattan Brothers: The Very Best of the Manhattan Brothers
by Javier AQ Ortiz
When a group like the Manhattan Brothers is this well known among its primary audience, and its career has been amply documented through several media, what else is there to say? Perhaps not much to said audiences, but their music, as represented in the collection The Very Best of The Manhattan Brothers, should also be quite a treat for those unfamiliar with their delicious brand of singing, swinging arrangements and performances. It is to those untried into the enjoyment that ...
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