Imagen Latina

Imagen Latina
Studio album by Alberto Naranjo
Released 1992
Recorded 1992
Genre Jazz band, Latin American music
Length 71:48
Label LEON
Producer Alberto Naranjo
Orlando Montiel
Mariela León
Freddy León
Alberto Naranjo chronology
El Trabuco Venezolano Vol. IV Imagen Latina Oblación

Imagen Latina is an album by Venezuelan musician Alberto Naranjo, originally released in 1992 and reedited twice in 2002 and 2008. It is the seventh album (fifth studio album) of El Trabuco Venezolano musical project arranged and directed by Naranjo.

Trabuco is a Spanish term used in Venezuelan baseball slang to describe an All-Star selection of players. So, El Trabuco Venezolano means "The Venezuelan All-Star Band", in the best sense of the phrase. Naranjo (Caracas, 1941) is one of Venezuela's icons of contemporary music, establishing his prestige as an arranger, conductor, composer and drummer. In 1992 Naranjo produced Imagen Latina. Soloists with an already established career in Venezuela participated in this project; renowned salseros as Canelita Medina, Carlos Espósito, Vladimir Lozano, Trina Medina, Carlos Daniel Palacios and Mauricio Silva; noted folklorists as Simón Díaz, Cecilia Todd and the group Serenata Guayanesa, and also counted with the collaboration of poet Jesús Rosas Marcano, musician Benjamín Brea, pop singer María Rivas, jazz pianist Otmaro Ruiz, and the polifacetic Aldemaro Romero. Most salsa bands are a tightly wound unit that developed their music through years of playing in clubs around their hometown. El Trabuco Venezolano never subscribed to that aesthetic. As the vehicle for the arrangements of Naranjo, his Trabuco defied all salsa conventions in the 1970s. The eclectic body of Naranjo's work shows some debt to Billo Frómeta, Tito Puente and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, preferring traditional guaracha, jazz, bolero, mambo and Venezuelan genres, creating a sophisticated and distinctive sound with accessible melodic hooks, complex harmonies and time signatures, as well as a special devotion to the recording studio. This record was never released outside of Venezuela, and after ten years of relative obscurity, the company Merusa Records of Netherlands introduced it at the international level. One of the songs included in the album, Calipso de El Callao, is listed in the book 1001 Songs: You Must Hear Before You Die.[1][2]

Track listing

# Song Composer(s) Vocal(s) Solo(s) Time
 1 Al fin juntas Alberto Naranjo
J. Rosas Marcano  		Canelita Medina
Trina Medina 		Pedro Vilela  6:22
 2 Te amo Mauricio Silva Mauricio Silva  5:07
 3 El chivo Balbino García Carlos Daniel Palacios
Carlos Espósito 		Federico Britos  4:50
 4 Calipso de El Callao Folklore Serenata Guayanesa  Saúl Vera  4:12
 5 El corazón del Caribe Trina Medina Trina Medina  3:25
 6 Se baila así Manolo del Valle Carlos Daniel Palacios  4:36
 7 Sin tu mirada Rafael Salazar Cecilia Todd Federico Britos  3:46
 8 Hace rato Ricardo Hernández Carlos Espósito  4:09
 9 Qué vale más Simón Díaz Simón Díaz Benjamín Brea  4:12
10 Señor Tiempo Carlos Espósito
Alberto Borregales
Justo Vega 		Carlos Espósito Alberto Vergara  5:42
11 Amor de alquiler Alberto Naranjo
J. Rosas Marcano 		María Rivas Aldemaro Romero  6:12
12 Boleros Venezolanos  6:58
  a- Soñando despierto Aníbal Abreu Vladimir Lozano
  b- Me queda el consuelo Aldemaro Romero Vladimir Lozano Manuel Freire
  c- No volveré a encontrarte Carlos J. Maytín Vladimir Lozano Lucio Caminiti
13 Sin mañana ni ayer Alberto Naranjo
J. Rosas Marcano 		Hughette Contramaestre    5:07
14 Alna's Mambo Alberto Naranjo Instrumental Alberto Naranjo
Otmaro Ruiz 		 7:08
Total time 71:48

Personnel

Guests

Lead vocals

Musicians

Other credits

Sources and reviews

  1. ↑ Dimery, Robert (2010). 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die. Universe Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0-78932-089-6.
  2. ↑ Google Books
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Thursday, December 31, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.