After bursting onto the Latin-music scene in the early '60s, Eddie Palmieri has spent the last four decades exploring Afro-Caribbean music, garnering a shelf-load of Latin Jazz Grammys along the way. La Perfecta II mixes the excitement of his early innovations in salsa, charange, mambo, and other idioms with the wide sonic spectrum of the modern recording studio. Exuding warmth and clarity, Palmieri's album mixes five older pieces with six new ones. The album takes its name from his La Perfecta ensemble, which disbanded in 1968. This reconvening, with a set of younger musicians, is based on fortuitous happenstance, as was the original band's chance encounter between Palmieri and the late Barry Rogers. Palmieri's delight in potent arrangements and compositions with ample room for improvisation sounds easy enough, but the ambitious change he brought to the music stills casts a long shadow today. This album is no mere rehashing, rather it is flush with its own vitality. --David Greenberger

El maestro Raúl Garello bandoneonista, director y compositor nacido en Chacabuco, ciudad de Buenos Aires. A través del tiempo, con su presencia en el tango , exhibio importantes aportes "post Piazzolla".

Chilean traditional music septet Inti-Illimani have spent the last 30 years mixing together South American folk styles and a human-rights oriented political agenda. Taking on the largely string-oriented folk music of the Andes Mountains, Inti-Illimani surround their often unison Spanish vocals with rainstorms of guitars, charangos, ronrocos, and guitarrons. In doing so, the group celebrates the everydayness of Andean music and culture – striking a chord of solidarity with global folk cultural struggles. – Andy Bartlett

Belinda, RBD, Intocable, Lucero, Alessandra, A.B. Quintanilla y los Kumbia All Starz, Kika Edgar, Fey, y Ricardo Montaner, son algunos de los artistas que le dan un sabor nuevo a los clásicos musicales de la Navidad. Una nueva forma de vivir la Navidad.

Chavela Vargas - 30 Grandes Canciones

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Acclaimed Costa Rican-Mexican performer and singer Chavela Vargas, "the queen of Mexican song", became notorious for the eroticism of her performances and for her open expression of lesbian desire.