Culled from the Chesky Latin jazz archives,
Jazz Latino: A Collection of Latin Inspirations takes 13 songs from 12 different artists (saxophonist
Paquito d'Rivera has two tracks, "The Peanut Vendor" and "Chucho"), including
Mongo Santamaria,
Astor Piazzolla (who, unsurprisingly, plays a tango), and
Leny Andrade. Because the compilation is only coming from one relatively small label's catalog, the selection here isn't fantastic, but to be fair, it's not claiming to be a "best-of" collection, just an "inspired" one, and so in that respect, it works. ~ Marisa Brown