Dennis M. Reed "Califa" - My Musical Autobiography and Other Stuff

...including my Latin Music Collection (LMC) with RealAudio tunes...including 1970s photos of Celia Cruz and Pete Escovedo...including photos of Willie Colon...including rare 1960s recordings with Carlos Federico...including photos of Larry Harlow and the Latin Legends Band and parties at our home...including drum tuning and other techniques...including coffee stuff  

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Latin Music Collection

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Various

15 Grandes Exitos Bailables de Navidad

LP Studios Borinquen DDD-1461

Various

40 Years of Cuban Music - La Isla del Son

CD Milan 73138 35866-2 1999

Various

50 Años de Música Tropical

LP Peerless ECO 25977-3 1983

Various

A Luaka Bop

CD

Various

Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods Vol 1

CD

Various

Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods Vol 2

CD

Various Afro Cuban Roots Vol. 1 - 50 Years of Cuban Music CD MRX MXD-2061 1998
Various Afro Cuban Roots Vol. 2 - Cuban Feelings - The Bolero Era CD MRX MXD-2062 1998
Various Afro Cuban Roots Vol. 3 - Cuba's Big Bands CD MRX MXD-2073 1998
Various Afro Cuban Roots Vol. 4 - Beny Moré - The Best CD MRX MXD-2074 1998
Various Afro Cuban Roots Vol. 5 - Rhythms of Cuba CD MRX MXD-2089 1998
Various Afro Cuban Roots Vol. 6 - Havana After Hours CD MRX MXD-2090 1998
Various Afro Cuban Roots Vol. 7 - Grandes Soneros CD MRX MXD-2139 1998

Various

Ahora Si Here Comes Changüí

CD

Various

All The Best From Cuba - 18 Rumbas & Salsas

CD

Various

American Clavé

CD

Various Banco Popular - Con La Música Por Dentro - Cien Años de Historia Video Banco Popular 1999
Various Banco Popular - El Espiritu De Un Pueblo Video Banco Popular 1994
Various Banco Popular - Romance Del Cumbanchero - La Música de Rafael Hernández Video Banco Popular 1998
Various Banco Popular - Siempre Piel Canela - La Música de Bobby Capo Video Banco Popular 1997
Various Banco Popular - Somos Un Solo Pueblo Video Banco Popular 1995
Various Banco Popular - Un Pueblo Que Canta Video Banco Popular 1993
Various BongoLand - Ultra-Lounge Vol 17 CD Capitol Records CDP 7243 8 534413 2 8 1997

Various

Caliente=Hot: Puerto Rican and Cuban Musical Expression in New York

CD

Various Caravana Cubana

Aguabella, Francisco - Bamboleo - Bosch, Jimmy - Del Puerto, Carlos Jr. - Díaz, Miguel Angá - Galarraga, Lázaro - Hernández, José caridad Perico - Leiva, Pio - -McKibbon, Al - Ridriguez, Raúl Travieso - Valdés, Jesús Chucho - Valle, Orlando Maraca

 

CD Rhino R2-78028 1999

Various

Casa de la Trova - Santiago de Cuba

CD

Various Cha Cha Cha - Classicos de Cuba including Orq Jorrín, Orq Aragón & Orq América CD Simitar Latino 18242 1997

Various

Charanga Tape #1 compiled by Rod Levin "A Student of Cuban Music" with liner notes for Dennis, Oct. 20, 1960 contains:

See Note 1 - Orq Navadades

a-1 "Camaguey y Habaneros" - guaguancó

See Note 2 - Orq Fajardo:

a-2 "El Aguardente" - son montuno

a-3 "No te Quedes Con Las Ganas" - son-montuno

a-4 "Pa' Bailar" - guaracha

a-5 "La Sallita" - guaracha

a-6 "Bonito y Sabroso" - guaracha

See Note 3 - Charlie Palmieri:

a-7 "Descarga" - fast son-montuno

See Note 4 - Orq Aragon:

a-8 "Pare Cochero" - danzon-montuno

a-9 "Guacharumba" - guaguancó-chachachá"

a-10 "La Cantana" - montuno-cha

b-2 "Separala Tambien" - danzon-montuno

b-3 "Clavelitos" - chachachá

b-4 "Comelon"- montuno-cha

See Note 5 - Orq Sensacion

a-11 "En guantanamo" - son-montuno

b-1 "El Guajiro de Cunagua" - guaracha-rumba

b-9 "La Reina del Guaguancó" - guaguancó

See Note 6 - Orq Melodias del 40:

b-5 "Seis Lindas Cubanas" - son-montuno

b-6 "Tunas Bayamo" - son-montuno

b-7 "El Niño Prodigio" - son-montuno

b-8 "Me Voy Pa' Moron" - son-montuno

Note 6 - Orq Belisario Lopez:

b-10 "Con El |Cimarron" - son-montuno

b-11 "Soy de Jarono" - son-montuno

Reel-to-Reel Tape 

Rod Levin's Liner notes:

Note 1:

Orq Navades - recording group only - made up of musicians working with several different bands.

Note 2:

Orq Fajardo - with Orq Aragon considered the #1 band of its type in Cuba. 12 men in group - piano, bbass, conga, timbales, flute, 4 violins, 3 singers who also play rhythm instruments such as maracas, guiro, etc. Tata Güines plays conga with this group. Jose Fajardo plays flute.

Note 3:

Descarga - a copy of Orq Melodias del 40. Charlie Palmieri, pianist, born and bred in N.Y., organized this group - first of its kind by Americans - not imported.

Note 4:

Orq Aragon - best Orquesta Tipica or "Charanga"group in Cuba. "Pare Cochero" - the tune that brought Aragon into fame. Recorded between 1945 and 1948.

Note 5:

Orq Sensacion - singer is Abalardo Barroso - old, over 60, well known in 1920's as singer - now with Sensacion.

Note 6:

Belisario Lopez Group - 1945 - 1950. Note roughness in sound as compared to Aragon or Fajardo. This was a transition from the sound of Orq Melodias del 40 (most popular in the 1940-46 era) to the Aragon type.

Various

Classicos de Oro

CD

Various

Colección Estelar de Cuba

Includes Joseito Fernandez, Celia Cruz, Charanga Rubalcan, Laito y su Sonora, Bamboleo, Bienvenido Granda, Sonora Matancera, Melocochita, Orq America, Pablo Fernandez, and Opus 13.

CD Brentwood Communications, Inc. BCCD 704 1998

Various

Colección Estelar de Latin Jazz

Includes Caribe Son, Latin on the Flip Side, Eddie Palmieri, Brock Holmes, Manny Oquendo/Andy Gonzalez, and Jimmy Wilson.

CD Brentwood Communications, Inc. BCCD 703 1998

Various

Colección Estelar de Merengue

Includes Los Sabrosos del Merengue, Agua Buena, Andy Andy, Milly, Jocelyn y Los Vecinos, Los Kenton, and Maraba.

CD Brentwood Communications, Inc. BCCD 701 1998

Various

Colección Estelar de Sabor Salsero

Includes Anthony Cruz, Melocochita, Grupo Niche, David Cedeño, Steven Falcon, Los Hermanos Moreno, Tito Rojas, Adalberto Santiago, La Misma Gente, and Hubert Angel.

CD Brentwood Communications, Inc. BCCD 712 1999

Various

Colección Estelar de Salsa Sudamericana

Includes Grupo Niche, Sandunga, Nelson y sus Estrellas, Conjunto Barrocco, Maraba, Tumbadora, Nueva Bronko, and La Combination.

CD Brentwood Communications, Inc. BCCD 709 1998

Various

Colección Estelar del Caribe Tropical

Includes Edmundo Arias, Lesly Daily, Melocochita, Maraba, Los Romanceros Vallenatos, Lucho Bermudez, JCJ Band, Orq Macdo, Super Orq Café, and Proyeto Omega

CD Brentwood Communications, Inc. BCCD 705 1998

Various

Compact jazz - Best of Latin Jazz

Includes Machito, Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri, Cal Tjader, Willie Bobo, Louie Ramierez, Chico O'Farrill, Miguelito Valdes, and Candido Camero Orchestra.

CD Verve 314 517 956-2 1993

Various

Cuadernos de la Habana

CD No. 1: Frank Emilio Flynn, Habana Vieja,Cuarteto Tradición Cubana,Olga González Cordo, Dúo Cachibache, & mechanical piano,

CD No. 2: Cuarteto Carenas, Clave y Guaguancó, & Frank Emilio Flynn

CD No. 3: La Cantoría Coralillo, Cuarteto Fénix, & Duo Enigma..

CD No. 4: Andrés Alén, Roxana Brínguez y Manuel Suárez Silva, & Orq Sublime.

CD No. 5: mechanical piano, Trío Tesis, Dúo Síncopa, Tambores de Bejucal, & Frank Emilio Flynn.

CD (5 CD set) Winter & Winter W&W 910 030

Note: the booklet "Cuadernos de la Habana - Notebooks of Havana" by Mario Luis Malfatti was sent via mail by Winter & Winter before I purchased the CDs.

Various Cuba Caribe includes Los Van Van, Adalberto Alverez y su Son, Manolín, El Medico de la Salsa, Elio Revé y su Charangón, Tamayo y Salsa AM, Valentín y Su Groupo, Los Papines, Afrocuba, and Orq Maravilla de Florida

Los Papines: Clave Para Un Timbero (guaguancó)

CD Hemisphere 7243 4 98649 2 4 1999

Various

Cuba Classics 2 - Incredible Dance Hits of the 60's and 70's

CD

Various

Cuba Classics 3 - New Directions in Cuban Music - ¹Diablo al Infierno¡

CD

Various Cuba Humidad - in memory of Carlos Embale including Carlos Embale, Coco Freeman, Luis Rio y Efraim Rios, Moises "Yumuri" Valle, Manuel J. Denis, Diamela del Pozo y Muñequitos de Matanzas, Pedro Lugo "El Nene" y Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Arimis Galindo, Rolo Martinez, Felix Valoy & Mario Rivera y Muñequitos de Matanzas CD P.O.W. Records PWK-83560 1999

Various

Cuba Libre

CD

Various

Cuba Now

CD

Various

Cuba Romantica Nostralgia Guajira

CD

Various

Cuba, Por las música, siempre

CD

Booklet

Various

Cuba: I Am Time - 4 CDs + Booklet

CD

Booklet

Various

Cuban Counterpoint: History of the Son Montuno

CD

Various

Cuban Gold 1 Que Se Sepa, ¡Yo Soy De La Habana

CD

Various

Cuban Gold 2 Bajo con Tumbao

CD

Various

Cuban Jam Session - Descargas Cubanas

CD

Various

Cuban Masters Vol 1 - Latin Jazz Collection

CD

Various

Cuban Revolución Jazz

Includes Irakere, Mario Bauza, Frank Emilio Flynn, Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuarto Espacio, Ramon Valle, Orlando Valle, Emiliano Salvador, and Chucho Valdés.

CD (2 CDs) Milan 73138 35880-2 1999

Various

Cuban Rhythm

Includes Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Orq Aragon, Vincentico Valdes, Joe Cuba, Machito, Perez Prado, Lino Frias, Bobby Capo, Virginia Lopez, Mongo Santamaria, Johnny Rodriguez, Beny Moré, and Adalberto Santiago.

CD Wonderful Music Of WMO 90355 1999

Various

Dance Time In Habana

Fajardo y Sus Estrellas "El Bodeguero".

CD

Various

De Corazon - Music & Dances From Puerto Rico

CD

Various

Demasiado Caliente

CD

Various

Dr. Olavo Alén Rodríguez - From AfroCuban Music to Salsa

CD

Book

Various

El Festival 16th de Salsa en New York

CD

Various

El Jazz Cubano

CD

Various

Estrellas del Son

CD

Various

Familia RMM Combination Perfecta

CD

Various Festival del Son de Santiago de Cuba - Con la participacion de Pedro Calvo, Rojitas, Adalberto Alvarez, Juan Formel, Tiburon, Mayito, El Tosco, Candido Fabre, Jose Luis Cortez, Jose Miguel "El Greco", Pancho Amat, Issac Delgado y muchos mas... Video Caribe Video Production 1999
Various Faustino Orana "El Guayabero", Celina Gonzales, Joseito Fernandez, Orq Chepin, Trio Matamoros, Trio Taicuba, Felix Chapotin, Los Naranjos, Rita Montaner, Bola de Nieve, Septete Nacional, Tito Gomez, Beny More, Angel Diaz, Perez Prado, Carlos Puebla, Pablo Milanes, Grupo Menguuare y La Familia Miranda Video Caribe Video CV001 1998

Various

Fiesta Picante - The Latin Jazz Party Collection

Includes Poncho Sanchez, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Pete Escovedo, Jorge Dalto & The Internamerican Band, Cal Tjader, Ray Barreto & New World Spirit, and Ray Vega.

CD (2 CDs) Concord Records CCD2-4782-2 1997.

Various

Goza Mi Son Montuno

LP Panart LP-2051

Various

Guantanamera 16 Versions includiing the Original Version

CD

Various

Guijiras y Son

CD

Various Guijaro Cubano includes tunes by Beny More, Josieto Fernandez, Radeunda Lima, Ramon Veloz, Coralia Fernandez, Guillermo Portabales, Los Guaracheros de Oriente, Trio Los Guaracheros de Oriente CD Sony/POW Records PWK 83287 1999

Various

Habana Secreta - Music by José Maria Vitier

CD

Various Havana After Hours including Beny Moré, Blanca Rosa Gil, Panchito Riset & La Lupe CD P.O.W. Records PWK-83499 1999

Various

Hey Jude - Tributo a los Beatles

CD

Various

Homeland: A Collection of Black South African Music

CD

Various

Homeland: A Collection of Black South African Music

CD

Various

Hot Cuban Music From Cuba 1907-1936

CD

Various

Hot Latin Nights Vol 1- Gipsy Rumba

CD

Various

Hot Latin Nights Vol 2 - Mambo

CD

Various

Hot Latin Nights Vol 3 - Gipsy Rumba

CD

Various In Cuba! - Maraca "Sonando", Enrique Alvarez y su Charanga Latina w Alfredo de la Fé "Mi Violin Changuero", Bakuleyé "Ula Ula", Laíto "Idilio", Arte Mixto "Agúzate", and Bamboleo "Circúlame" "Yo No Me Parezco Chacon" Video Ahí-Namá Films Ahi-5001-3 1998
Various Jazz On The Latin Side Allstars including Alex Acuña, Francisco Aguabella, Justo Almario, The Banda Brothers, René Camacho, Luis Conte, Sal Cracchiolo, Freddie Crespo, José De Leon, Cougar Estrada, Ramon Flores, Susie Hansen, Robert Incelli, Danilo Lozano, Al McKibbon, George Ortiz, Otmaro Ruiz, Ricardp "Tiki" Pasillas, Louie Perez, Juan Carlos Quintero, José "Papo" Rodriguez, Joe Routundi, Farancisco Torres, Michito Sanchez, Poncho Sanchez, Asdru Sierra, Arturo Velasco CD Cubop/Ubiquity CBCD029 2000

Various

Jawbone Of An Ass - Santiago de Cuba

CD Smithsonian / Cook C-5004 1955

Various

Joyas Musicales

CD

Various Latin Beat - Real Latin Jazz - Brass, Horns, & Winds CD The Right Stuff 72435-28296-2-8 2000
Various Latin Beat - Real Latin Jazz - Percussion, Piano, & Strings CD The Right Stuff 72435-28299-2-7 2000

Various

La Supertrulla - Melón All Stars

Includes Pijuan, Orq Innovacion, Puerto Rican Power, Orq Nater, Chico Rivera, Tony Guayama, Harry Fraticelli, Julio y Casapons

LP Melon MEL-LPE-0016

Various Latin Beats with Sabú Martinez, Tito Puente, Sahib Shihab, Juan Pablo Torres, Nuyorican Soul, Los Van Van, Louie Ramierez, Ray Barreto, jack Costanzo, Al Escobar, and Beny More CD Mr Bongo MRBCD17 2000
Various Latin Carnival includes Machito, La Sonora Matancera, Luis Kalaff, Joe Valle, Tito Puente, Ester Forero, Noro Morales, Alberto Beltran Con Orq René Hernandez, La Plata Sextette, Yomo Toro, Ismael Rivera Con Cortijo y su Combo, Joe Cotto, René Grand, Nelson Piñedo, Damiron y Chapuseaus, Mario Hernandez y Sus Diablos Del Caribe, Nemours Jean-Baptiste, Daniel Santos, Johnny Lopez, and Celia Cruz CD Charly CDHOT 608 1996

Various

Latin Dance Party Vol 1

CD

Various

Latin Dance Party Vol 2

CD

Various Latin Music Sampler V2 CD latin Beat Magazine ESP Entertainment LB V2 11.02 2002

Various

Latino Latino 

CD

Various

Latino Latino - Music From the Streets Of L.A.

CD

Various

Legends of Latin Music

CD

Various

Los Bravos del Ritmo

CD

Various

Los Grandes de la Musica Tropical

Orq Aragon "El Bodeguera".

CD

Various

Los Mejores Musicos de Cuba - Instrumental Bailable (Gema LPG-1124)

featuring Bebo Valdes, Chico O'Farrill, Richard Egues, Peruchin, Emilio Peñalver, Tata Güines, Negro Vivar, Escrich, Walfredito de los Reyes, Osvaldo Peñalver, Cachaito and /or Cachao (Israel López), Tojo, Senen Suarez, Urfe.

Cara A:

1. DESCARGA NUMERO DOS. Chico O'Farrill y All Stars cubano. Solistas: Sax. Tenor. Emilio Peñalver; Sax. Alto. Osvaldo Peñalver; Piano. Peruchin; Tumba. Tata-Guines; y Flauta. Richard Egues.

2. DILE A CATALINA. Piano. Bebo Vaides; Trombon. Tojo: Bajo. Cachaito.

3. ME RECORDARAS. Orquesta de Cuerdas de Bebo Valdss. Solista: Sax. Alto. Escrich.

  1. BATAKUN. Guitarra Electrica. Senen Suarez; Bajo. Urfe; Tumba, Tata-Guines; Bateria.-Walfredo de los Reyes.
  2. QUE ME CASTIGUE DIOS. Trompeta solista. "el Negro Vivar"; 
  3. BILONGO. Solistas Piano. Peruchin; Flauta. Richard Egues.

Cara B:

1. TUMBAO. Bebo Valdes y su Orquesta. Arreglo de Rene Hernandez.

2. DESCARGA NUMERO UNO. Chico O'Farrill y All Stars cubano. Solistas: Sax. Alto. Osvaldo Peñalver: Sax. Tenor. Emilio Peñalver; Piano. Peruchin; Tumba. Tata-Guines ; Bajo. Israel Lopez.- Flauta. Richard Egues.

3. SOLO CONTIGO BASTA. Orquesta de Cuerdas de Bebo Valdes. Trompeta solista, "el Negro Vivar".

4. SPECIAL DEL BEBO. Piano. Bebo Valdes; Tromb6n. Tojo; Bajo. Cachaito: Tumba, Tata-Giiines.

  1. EL LABRADOR. Orquesta de Pepe Delgado. Al Tres. Hierrezuelo. 

6. LAGRIMAS NEGRAS. Solistas: Piano. Peruchin: Flauta. Richard Eques.

Los Discos Gema son fabricados y distribuidos en Cuba por: ALVAREZ GUEDES y CIA.

Ayestaran Nro. 301 esq. a Aranguren, La Habana, Cuba Tel. 70-0685

LP Gema LPG-1124
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Various

Los Sonneros de Hoy - Tributos a Los Soneros

Includes Domingo Quiñones, Rey Ruiz, Deddie Romero, Tony Vega, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Giro, Van Lester, Pupy Santiago, Luis Enrique, and Victor Manuelle

CD Sony Tropical CDZ-81102/2-469604 1993

Various Luna Latina - The Best of Latin Jazz: The New Generation CD Shanachie 66029 2000

Various

Mambo Explosion

CD

Various

Mambo Fever

CD

Various

Mambo Mucho Mambo

Machito, Xavier Cugat, Belmonte

LP Columbia CL 626

Various

Merengues Tipicos

CD

Various

Milan Latino: El Son de Cuba

CD

Various

Milan Latino: La Charanga de Cuba

CD

Various

Milan Latino: La Rumba de Cuba

CD Milan Latino 7313835743-2 1995

Various

More Drums on Fire

Two tracks with Armando Peraza: Artistry in Rhythm and Triste.

LP World Pacific WP-1261

Various

More Than Mambo: The Introduction to Afro-Cuban Jazz

CD

Various

Music of Cuba

CD Smithsonian / Folkways F04064 1985

Various

Non Stop Dancing - Salsa & Merengue

CD

Various Oriente de Cuba: Familia Valera - The Son; Familia Valera - Caña Quema;  Folkloyuma - The Rumba; Estudiantina Invasora - The Estudiantina Tradition; Trio Yagua - The Trova CD(5) Nimbus NI 1746 1999
Various Pa' La Conga CD Panart 5173 1994

Various

Para Bailar El Son

CD

Various

Pinareño - Pinar Del Rio - From the tobacco Road of Cuba

CD

Various

Pop Music from Africa Part 1

CD

Various

Pop Music from Africa Part 2

CD

Various

Put Your Heart On - Salsa in English

CD

Various

Put Your Heart On - Salsa in English Vol 2

CD

Various

Raices del la Salsa

CD

Various

Rhythm & Smoke - The Cuba Sessions

Includes Cubamar, Sabor y Tumba, Cantores de Rosario, Bamboleo, Arte Mixto, Maraca, Chispa y Sus Complices, Eco de Caribe, Los Papines, Moncada, Klimax, and Changuito.

CD Intersound 9542 1998

Various

Ritmos Cubanos Para Bailar

"Cocula" by Conjunto Senén Suárez.

"Batakum" by Orq Riverside.

LP Panart LP 3020

Originally belonged to my wife's mother

Various

Ritmos de Cuba

CD

Various

RMM 10th Anniversary Vol 9