Jazz from Latin America, plus a track we can't name from Ca7riel & Paco

Alt.Latino

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras gives his co-host Anamaria Sayre a primer on Latin Jazz. She returns the favor with a new track from Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso (of Tiny Desk fame) and a Mexican ranchera that sounds older than it is.

Featured artists and songs:

• Edison Machado & Boa Nova, "Naquela Base"

• Michi, "Memmy (Recuerdo)" (feat. Gabriel da Rosa)

• Adam O'Farrill, "Nocturno, 1932"

• Vivir Quintana, "Más Libre Que En Casa"

• Lucia Sarmiento, "Look Up"

• Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso, "#T****"

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mohn, thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen.
0:10.3	I went all jazz this week.
0:12.6	Okay?
0:13.5	The three tracks I have are part of this ongoing jazz appreciation thing that we have going, you and I.
0:20.5	I didn't know. I just know I wasn't consulted on this thing we have going you and I but and it's a three I just know I wasn't
0:22.5	consulted on this thing we have going but sure and a three very very distinct styles I feel like
0:29.3	you're trying to like what's that what do they say is it Trojan horsing you're trying to
0:34.0	Trojan horse jazz into my life.
0:42.2	From NPR music, this is Alt Latino.
0:43.2	I'm Felix Contreras. And I'm Ana Maria Sayre. Let the Chis May begin.
0:53.9	This is an album coming out later this month on March 28th.
0:57.0	It's a lost album recorded in 1978 by the Brazilian drummer Edison Machado, who was one of those kinds of musicians, musician.
1:05.0	Now his career began in Rio in the 1950s, and he had a winding path of a career from Brazil to Europe and then to US.
1:12.5	This album was recorded again in 1978 and it's an amazing mixture of jazz and Basanova and Samba
1:19.3	but told through the jazz perspective.
1:22.7	This is a track called Nakela Base.
1:45.0	Music called Nakela Basse. I'm gonna be I'm gonna'n't know
1:48.0	I'm I'm I'm
2:01.6	I'm
2:02.6	I'm Brazilian drummer Edison Machado.
2:24.6	He kind of single-handedly invented this way of playing samba in the 50s.
2:28.6	When his snare drum broke and then he played the samba on the symbols,
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