The Hideout

Rip a Dip	How'm I Doin'? As an African American timbalero and bandleader, Henry "Pucho" Brown represents the flip side of Latin jazz. With his Latin Soul Brothers, Pucho was big in the 1960s, and his engaging, boogaloo-style dance music revived for 1990s London dance-club crowds. How'm I Doin'? shows tha...	N.Y.C. Salsa, Vol. 3	Different Directions	Do It!
Very Best of Eddie Palmieri This two CD set features Palmieri's finest recordings for Fania and dips into an esteemed recording career spanning over thirty years as a pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. Includes his classics, 'Ay Que Rico', 'Azucar' and 'La Verdad'. Slimline	Raise Your Hand On paper, the teaming of Latin-jazz veteran Poncho Sanchez with Stax legends Eddie Floyd, Booker T. Jones, and Steve Cropper on two Floyd classics may have looked like a nifty way to expand Sanchez's audience while promoting Concord's re-launch of the Stax and Volt labels. But t...	Ismael Miranda con Orchestra Harlow Abran Paso	Cal Tjader's Latin Concert	United We Swing Spanish Harlem Orchestra's United We Swing does more than just make you want to dance. The joyous collection will likely incite a full-scale house party, complete with flowy dresses, sparkly jewelry, and silky, unbuttoned shirts. The disc plays like an actual live performance, a...

He never sold out.
Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers are the distillation of all the uptown bands of quality that made their exclusive home in the Harlem of the nineteen fifties. Enchanted by the call of Afro Cuban music,he developed an approach to the music that excluded only the weak, petty, and jive elements of Afro-Jazz. They never played to what was novel or cute. They stuck with the elemental music from the earth on which they stood. So much of Africa has been deleted from the music in order to pretty it up for newer generations. Not Pucho. He remains true to the soul of his fathers and the soul of his time. Listen to the rhythm section on Hideout, then close your eyes and flow with one of the most dynamic and interesting vibe solos on contemporary records. This music is an icon representing how it is to be real. Phil Newsum La Voz del Pasado