VA - Ritmo De La Noche - Rhythm Of The Night: The Very Best of Latin Jazz

Artist: VA
Title: Ritmo De La Noche - Rhythm of the Night: The Very Best of Latin Jazz
Year Of Release: July 23, 2002
Label: Sony
Genre: Jazz / Latin
Bitrate: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Total Time: 73:43 min
Total Size: 114 MB

Tracklist
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1. Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria
2. La Cuna - Ray Barretto
3. Street Scenes - David Sanchez
4. Ponteio - Astrud Gilberto/Stanley Turrentine
5. Corazon - Hank Crawford
6. Senor Blues - Herbie Mann
7. Sweet Glenda - Gato Barbieri
8. Stone Flower - Antonio Carlos Jobim
9. Stella By Starlight - Arturo Sandoval
10. Samba De Sausalito - Santana
11. Vera Cruz - Stanley Turrentine
12. A Gozar Con Mi Combo - Cachao
13. Ritmo De La Noche - Al DiMeola
14. Autumn - Ed Calle
15. Eu Vim Da Bahia - Stan Getz
16. Manteca - Paquito D'Rivera


Jazz and Latin music are each irresistible on their own. Ritmo de la Noche combines them with a brilliance that would shame a rainbow. This collection of Latin jazz classics includes jazz men such as flutist Herbie Mann, who embraces tough Cuban rhythms on Horace Silver's "Senor Blues," from 1965, and the Fania All Stars' conga man, Ray Barretto, gliding into smooth-jazz territory with 1979's infectious "La Cuna." Astrud Gilberto brings bossa nova into the mix with the seductive "Ponteio" from 1971, featuring Stanley Turrentine playing the Stan Getz role on sax. Argentina's Gato Barbieri wields his familiar sultry tenor saxophone on the cha-cha-cha "Sweet Glenda," while perennial crossover star Carlos Santana hitches his unmistakable Bay Area barrio rock to 1973's percolating "Samba de Sausalito." The genius of the individual songs is matched by the effortless flow of the entire disc. And seminal selections like Mongo Santamaria's "Watermelon Man" from 1965 benefit from the clean and detailed remastered versions here. --Bob Tarte