GRAMMY NOMINATED as the ''BEST TROPICAL LATIN ALBUM'' in 2007, this is a Classic CD from one of Cuba's best bands.

Greetings from Havana is the Grammy Nominated follow-up to the internationally acclaimed cross-over album, Mardi Gras Mambo ''Cubanismo'' (in New Orleans, Billboard Top World Music Albums #9.). Due to constant world touring, this was the first album of new material from Cubanismo in over 6 years. It represented the evolution of the band through that time.

Recorded at Abdala Studios in Havana- Cuba's finest studio. This album exhibits all the fire and swing that defines traditional Cuban dance rhythms while also allowing its players the freedom of a jazz-style jam session resulting in fabulous big band sound with absolutely red hot solos.

Cubanismo!! bring the fire of the Havana dance floor, full of swaggering horn charts, brilliant harmonies and wild Cuban polyrhythms. From the irresistible traditional to the super exciting modern, their infectious music is the very heartbeat of Cuba itself, including iconic Cuban rhythms that keep the world dancing to this day, such as Mambo, Salsa, Chachachá, Danzon, Desacarga, Bolero, Rumba, Son, and Latin Jazz.

Led by Jesús Alemañy - a trumpeter for the legendary Son group Sierra Maestra from the age of fifteen - the group began as a recording project. The subsequent eponymous album became one of the Latin crossover albums of the '90s, and made the Top Ten Lists of Billboard, Latin Beat and Afropop Worldwide.

Cubanismo! has recorded 7 Albums and has being touring more that 50 countries worldwide performing in the biggest Jazz Festivals, Theaters, Art Centers and Dancing Halls.

Cubanismo! means a ''word or phrase, which is specifically Cuban, something unique to the island and not common to the general Spanish culture of Latin America''. And 'all Cuban' is Cubanismo!!!!-the very talented, very successful Cuban band, which is comprised by an all-star lineup and led by Jesus Alemany, the former trumpeter of Cuba's prominent Son group Sierra Maestra.

Track Listing

• Calar En Santiago
• Congo Real
• Idilio
• Estiro Bastidores
• Presteme Su Mujer
• Petit Mambo
• El Solar
• Paloma Sin Nido
• Mi Proposicion
• Descarga Caliente
• Celebrando

Additional Details

Label: AIM Records

Genre: World

Run Time: 60 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/08/07

UPC: 752211109125