Hi folks! I accidentally posted the wrong episode….and I repeated Episode 56 rather than 57. Sorry about that. But I’ve corrected it. So give a listen to Episode 57—from the archives. A great show!

One more from the archives on Cuban jazz—-and this might be the best of the lot! You’ll hear how Castro’s disdain for anything American led him to ‘ban’ jazz, and how this led to a new and revolutionary form of music: timba. Chucho Valdes and Iraquere played quite a role in that development.

I also play excerpts of a conversation I had with Arturo O’Farrill in Havana, and two tracks from an album he did with Chucho Valdes.

You’ll also hear The Cuban Funk Machine, Okan, Bobby Carcassess, Sexto Sentido, and a young pianist who will blow you away: Jorge Luis Pacheco.