Our May 10 (May 9 in the Americas) program will feature two special guests with
interviews and music:
1. Cuban Laud (a relative of the lute) master
Barbarito Torres, whose prolific career includes the Buena Vista Social Club,
but we will be playing some of his wonderful work with songstress Miriam
Ramos.
2. Albertico Lescay, leader of the Cuban Jazz/Fusion group Formas.
NuJazz is a new branch of Jazz in Cuba that we'll let him explain to
you.
We'll also feature some more of Danzas Para Piano de Ignacio
Cervantes.(the musical gift that keeps on giving)
Our May 17 (May 16 in
the Americas) program will feature a brief interview with Angel Toirac, pianist
of Influencia, and a lot of music by this distinctive Jazz ensemble, We wiill
also have some vintage 1970s Cuban Funk from Grupo Monumental, some recent Cuban
R & B by Eme, and we'll finish the wonderful concert piano album Danzas Para
Piano de Ignacio Cervantes.
Our May 24 (May 23 in the Americas) features
a brief interview with phenomenal Jazz saxophonist Michel Herrera and his music.
Also some popular dance music from the 70s by Grupo Monumental, the Timba of
Manolito Simonet y su Trabuco, and we are going to begin listening to
Popularmente Sinfónica Vol II by Orquesta Sinfónica de Matanzas.
Two
listening options on shortwave:
WBCQ, 7490 KHz, Tuesdays 0000 UTC (8pm EDT
Mondays)
Channel 292, 6070 KHz, Tuesdays 1900 UTC (2100 CEST)
See our
Facebook page, From The Isle of Music, for more information.
Thanks as
always for all you do for radio.
(William “Bill” Tilford,
Owner/Producer, Tilford Productions, LLC, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
