For more than 50 years, Tito Puente, the great bandleader and master of the timbales, was among the most important figures in Latin dance and Latin jazz. By the time he died, on May 31, 2000, he'd made more than 130 recordings, the greatest of them cut during the 1940s, '50s, and '60s for RCA. This set features the 108 tracks Puente cut for the label from 1949 to 1960, and it shows how he skillfully crossed the boundaries between Latin, jazz, and popular genres. All the founding fathers of Latin music are here: percussionists Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto, and Willie Bobo, as well as composer-arranger Chico O'Farrill and Dominican flutist Johnny Pacheco

Jose & Jami's instructions are very clear and precise. They demonstrate every shine breaking on the “1” (LA STYLE) and on the “2” (NEW YORK STYLE/MODERN 2) beat, explain and show the shine with their back to the camera, and then dance to the music.

“Inspired by hard-lit and science fiction, Zé’s tick-tocking sambas and comforting cançãos range from the painfully touching to the inscrutably conceptual." - www.luakabop.com

“Tom ze, the brilliant Brazilian Tropicalia member, has always marched to the beat of his own drummer, and in doing so has created some of the most amazing music to ever come from Brazil. (or anywhere else)” – Sean (Chesterfield, Virginia, United States), Amazon.com

ANJO DE MIM is a Brazilian popular music (MPB) collection by famous Brazilian singer-songwriter Ivan Lins. Special guests include Cesar C. Mariano, Vania Bastos, Boca Livre and Meninos de Sao Caetano.