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I wonder whether any of the contributors to this thread could help me with a potentially silly question (I thought it best to park it mid-thread rather than to create its own). Is there a name for the era of Latin music between the 1950s and 1960s around the Spanish speaking Caribbean but outside of the obvious Latin music hotspots of Cuba and New York? This seems to have been a period of flourishing local bands in territories like Venezuela, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Columbia, playing in conjunto or big band format, releasing records with covers that have a colour photograph of the band dressed in tuxedos outside in a park area or doing a group activity like washing a car. Musically the records tend to be quite stylistically diverse, maybe with a focus on pre-salsa son styles, mambo or guaracha, but with local styles like bomba, merengue, cumbia or plena in the mix, and maybe one guaguanco or boogaloo track. Examples of records might be Cortijo Y Su Combo Con Ismael Rivera – Bueno, Que...? from Puerto Rico Orquesta Porfi Jimenez – Porfin Porfi from Venezuela it is a very specific period of music, with a unified aesthetic and similar approach to diversity of styles. I am not looking to over define things but I wondered whether there is an acknowledged way to refer to this era, similar to other non-metropolitan musical booms like the Territory swing and R&B bands of the 1940s or Garage Rock in the 1960s. Is this a recognised era? Or is it just called pre-salsa tropical music or something?

Here in RI looks like about 10 inches so far. Starting snowing around 9:00 am. The temp is up to 21 degrees from single digits this morning. The snow is very fluffy.

Youse guys in Northern NY are supposed to get it the worst of all . Don't go out! Here in Queens it's already turned to sleet. I don't know how many inches we got, because as Phil Woods once said to an empty room at the Half Note, "I'm getting snow blind from the table cloths!"

As Howard McGhee introduced him to a group of confused rock guitarists back in the early 70s at a Jazz Interactions classroom in NYC: "Here's Attila the Hun!".

Clint has said what a huge jazz fan he is.

This one mentioned above may be my favorite album by Elvin as a leader. While I very much enjoy many (but not all) of his performances as sideman, The majority of his albums as leader are not to my taste.

Yeah, huge fear if the power cuts out, then I can't watch the football conference championships.

Attlia Zoller was a superb guitarist/musician. I've been on a Zoller kick for the last few weeks, and I've thoroughly enjoyed everything I've heard by him!

Thanks for the post and link. Listening now and enjoying the album

We've been getting sleet for a couple of hours on top of about 8" of snow. Just hope it stays sleet and doesn't turn to freezing rain. Temp 17, real feel 3, gonna be tough if we lose power.

We're at around a foot right now and it's windy, blowing all over the place. The snow's still coming down hard, but I imagine that by tonight it'll relax a bit. We are supposed to get around two feet!

My family in the Texas hill country had a pipe burst and have dealt with graupel, but are otherwise ok. Supposed to warm up a bit and then refreeze, so may be messy soon. My wife is in Atlantic City for work, and they had 6" overnight. I'm supposed to go join her on Wednesday, hopefully flights are closer to normal by then.

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Crazy list, I only have 26 and I didn't even know I had one of them.

yes, they alway offer streaming and download options for their albums - CDs, though, haven't happened yet in this series.

Pochi is rad. Those Sakata Trio albums from the 70s/80s are good.

Too many slabs, not enough time. But we can try.

We had two inches overnight.

Hopefully a download will follow. Would much prefer a compact disc issue, but am not holding my breath. I need to spin this album soon!

Yes. That's the absolute worst. Back in 2022, we lost power for 9 days due to freezing rain. It's definitely something to take seriously. Flashlights, generators (if you own one), and camping stoves! Plus—lots of blankets. Oh! And "pedestrian crampons" really helped. More or less like these.