Mix part of a last weekend's session at the Latin Jazz/ Jam Session in Bar Bravo, great place at Brussels's center. Great musicians and excellent performance. Especially Martin Méreau of La Chiva Gantiva! He colored the night with a very beautiful sound and tremenda bomba. The tracks sounded as if were recorded there. Mongo Santamaría introduces the mix with a "The Wolf of Wall Street" kinda humming. Roberto Roena, Ray Barreto, a Jack Constanzo "Mr Bongo" 's Caravan.. A highly energetic cover of Ray Charles's "Georgia on my mind" by Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers... Playing Pedrito Martinez after Mongo Santamaría made a lot of sense to me. Pedrito is the new King Midas of the Afro-Cuban music scene in NYC. He is revitalizing the ambiente by confronting tradition with a modern sonority. I mirrored the jam with a "Watermelon Man" by Poncho Sanchez. Enjoy!
