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El Judío Maravilloso!

- Source: Boogie Woogie Flu

It was a classically Semitic combination of chutzpah and horniness that led Lawrence Ira Kahn, a white Jewish kid from Brownsville, Brooklyn to become Larry Harlow, a king of salsa, a musical movement that combined Cuban son with New York bebop, and served as much to fuel the dance floors of nightclubs numbering in the hundreds during its heyday in the early 1970s, as to define the cultural voice of New York's influx of Latino immigrants—mostly Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican—that began in the 1950s.

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Ten tens for 10-10-10

- Source: SoundRoots

Being blessed with a near Biblical flood of new releases, I'm going to take this rare date (the kind of thing that happens every 1,000 years [not counting next year's 11/11/11 and the following year's 12/12/12, of course]) to draw your a10tion to 10 new global CDs by talking about track 10 on each album.

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Natacha Atlas Illuminates the Shifting Global Zeitgeist

- Source: Spinner

As the sky over the Skirball Center transformed from twilight to night, Natacha Atlas and her band – performing in the cultural organization's hilltop courtyard alongside the 405 Freeway – shifted from music associated with Lebanese pop-folk idol Fairuz to English somber-jazz-folkie Nick Drake to American jazz-soul activist Nina Simone just as smoothly and imperceptibly.

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