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Greater Latin America
MONGO SANTAMARIA
Montreux Heat!
Pablo
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Jazz
JACO PASTORIUS
Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology
Rhino
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South Asia
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR
Rise
Angel
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World Music Features
Les Nubians
This September, the Faussarts dropped their third full-length recording with a group that always finds ways to confound expectations: Les Nubians Presents: Echos: Chapter One Nubian Voyager.
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World Music Features
Femi Kuti
Global pop music’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams is littered with the bodies of the wannabe progeny of famously great musicians. Femi Anikulapo Kuti will never go out like that.
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Reggae & Caribbean
Jimmy Cliff
Black Magic
Artemis
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North American
Chief Xcel/Fela Kuti
The Underground Spiritual Game
Quannum QP 048
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Travel
Anguilla
Whenever I fly Caribbean way, I most often choose to land on the under-the-radar islands. Grenada’s like that. So are Montserrat, St. John and Tobago. But Anguilla is my new favorite off-the-beaten-path getaway.
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African Legends
Salif Keita
Salif Keita is one of the most recognized voices in Afropop music. No doubt the “African Caruso” would add, “But I am the greatest,” and few would deign to disagree.
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World Music Features
Kermit Ruffins
People outside New Orleans say trumpeter Kermit Ruffins is Louis Armstrong reincarnated, straight up. That Cheshire Cat grin, that rolling, wide-legged gait, that raspy, warmly infectious, from-the-heart-and-belly laugh.
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World Music Features
Daara J
In 2003, a singing/rapping trio called Daara J released one of the most exciting hip-hop albums on the planet. Boomerang’s 13 tracks deal with racial pride, community solidarity, fighting oppression, morality, love and respect (for fam, women and self).
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World Music Features
Dino Saluzzi
Before virtuoso Argentine musician-composer Astor Piazzolla came along in the mid-’50s, the bandoneon was primarily known as a sailor’s “toy” accordion. Twelve years after his death, there’s but one cat with instrumental and compositional chops audaciously iconoclastic enough to walk in El Maestro’s boots: Dino Saluzzi.
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African Legends
Fela Kuti
Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in Abeokuta, Nigeria, on October 15, 1938. He died as Fela Anikulapo Kuti on August 2, 1997 in Lagos of "many complications arising from Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome.”
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