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Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band perform incredibly smart, deeply engaging, viscerally exciting Afro Cuban jazz. Jerry plays trumpet & congas.

Latin dance music CDs, DVDs and information. Specializing in Salsa, Latin Jazz, Timba, Rumba, Lucumí, Afro-Cuban, Bomba, Plena, Boogalú and more!

Kabiosile presents live recordings of the Afro Cuban folkloric music of Santeria (also known as Lucumi or la Regla de Ocha), Cuba's most dynamic African spiritual tradition. Learn to play the bata drums with El Lenguaje del Tambor : Bata Rhythms from Matanzas, Cuba.

Mamborama covers the world of Cuban music, along with some occasional self-indulgent ventures into peripheral areas.

BataMbira is a contemporary synthesis of folkloric musics from Zimbabwe and Cuba. Mbira (thumb piano) and bata (drums) blend unusually and vivaciously.

Kabiosile : La Fuerza del Tambor: : Afro Cuban Music Video and Audio Samples

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Tata Güines, master conguero and innovator in Cuban music ~ 10 streaming tracks of his finest!

Self-Built Cajónes for Cuban Yambú / Thomas Altmann (2006)

'This exquisite recording finds one of the most gifted percussionists in Latin music today working in what is perhaps his true element - the Santeria liturgy. The spiritual power of this Afro-Caribbean religious ceremony, sung in Yoruba to the accompaniment of a three-man percussion bata is awesome, but it is the intense articulation of rhythm that makes this music so devastating, incredible.'-JD Considine,Musician Magazine'A wonderful album - absorbing, mesmerizing, beautiful and fun, graceful and sensual. It draws ou into a space and reality all its own, with a mood and flow quite distant from the everyday and yet hauntingly familiar. I found myself playing it over and over...' - City Paper (Washington DC)'Is a stone soul picnic, so party down. If you're going to buy one record this summer, here is one that, in the words of Hebrew National, answers to a higher authority.' - Glenn O'Brien, Interview Recorded in August 1985. Personnel: Milton Cardona (vocals, percussion); Steve Berrios, Hector Hernandez (bata); Jose Fernandez (percussion); Amma Dawn, Teresa Gomez, Sandra Wiles, Linda Evans (background vocals).

The Vibe: Afro-Cuban Rhythms, Latin Jazz, Mambos & Descargas (free). Mp3 is about 10 minutes long.