New Music: Something Old, Something New, Something Found... and Jazz

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week we balance our passion for new discoveries with reissued music from an iconic Latin American songwriter.

Featured artists and songs:

• Ezra Collective, "Body Language" (feat. Sasha Keable)

• Patti LaBelle, "Teach me Tonight (Me Gusta Tu Baile)"

• Teri Gender Bender, "SANAR"

• Kevin Kaarl, "recuérdame x siempre"

• Violeta Parra, "Cantores Que Reflexionan"

• Ben Aler, "Honest"

• Jose Luiz Martins, "Cravo e Canela"

Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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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	Okay, so here's my new TikTok passion.
0:12.5	Your new TikTok passion?
0:15.5	There's this woman, she's a mathematician.
0:18.5	She's doing all of these algebra equations.
0:23.3	She does them in English and in Spanish.
0:25.4	And she does it on a whiteboard.
0:27.0	Let's solve this problem.
0:28.6	I watched like 10 of them in a row.
0:31.2	I didn't think math was my thing, but apparently it is.
0:35.1	My reluctance to embrace math and fully accepted is the only reason why I'm not an astrophysicist right now instead of doing a podcast.
0:44.1	Oh, really.
0:44.8	Oh, really.
0:45.8	That is the only reason why.
0:46.4	I love all the universe and the stars and stuff.
0:49.2	Uh-huh.
0:53.9	From NPR music, this is all Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.
0:57.0	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer. Let the Chisement begin.
1:01.0	So, for today's first song, I'm very excited to share something.
1:05.0	British Jazz Quintet. Quintet.
1:09.0	Quintet.
1:10.0	C. Ezra Collective.
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