New Santana Album "Africa Speaks"

Back on track ... I love Latin music. It’s full of soul. I started a thread titled "Do you like Mexican music," and was taken to task by a few small thinkers claiming that I was being "racist." The fact is, I’ve been deep into the Hispanic culture for a long time. My children are Hispanic. The music is fantastic, and I have a lot of it.

On the Arturo O’Farrill albums ... As a result of Wolfie’s above post, I checked them out on Spotify. The ballads on the "In These Shoes" album are really good and the vocalist is quite nice as well. The band kind of reminds me of Willie Bobo’s orchestra. Not my cup of tea really. I much prefer the small Mexican groups. Mariachi is quite nice too.

Check this out ... one of my all-time favorites:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRp5vIJ_-ek

Frank

I like Latin music as much as the next guy, I even took Latin in school. 

So this really isn’t just about music or sound compression at all is it?
It may have started out that way by the the OP. Not a friendly forum however, I guess that is just the nature of the beast.

My apologies to the OP, some people you just cannot reach.

So in the spirit of this thread I just streamed Africa Speaks again and even streaming you can tell it is heavily compressed.

Wanna see a group of grown men running away from a mouse?, watch what happens when they turn on this video!;)  A few points 1st -
- This music is extremely well played, is a derivative of a music with roots in the Latin Jazz behemoth; Irakere (Chucho Valdes, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D'Rivera).  It's all the rage in Cuba and its called Timba.
- The music swings mightily and allows room for and encourages, extended solos! 
- The people like to get dolled up, and than proceed to sweat their asses off, not by simply dancing, but improvising on the dancefloor.

There was a time when the exact same things used to be said about JAZZ!;)

https://youtu.be/ogvBr2avWjs