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• sultry Bossa Nova.
• the versions in this album are fantastic and fun.
• I don’t say this often, but I guarantee, you’re going to love it.

• Major Lazer’s Hit Single ‘Lean On’ Gets Must-Hear Island akeover.

• Amid Trump’s Grim Cuba Talk, Havana Maestros Offer Brighter Vision.

• the new recording of “Sexual Healing” is my preferred version now. The Dave Brubeck and Carmen McRae track was a brilliant merging of three worlds.

• the more you let the Cubans do, the better. Ibrahim Ferrer’s As Time Goes By will be treasured, since it turned out to be his final recording before he died – and Coco Freeman makes himself so at home on U2’s I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, you wonder who hell the guy with the big reverb is on the chorus. Oh yeah, it’s Bono.

• Major Lazer’s Hit Single “Lean On” Gets.
• Must-Hear Island Makeover

• it’s the feel good album of 2014, performed by a stellar assortment of Brazilian jazz musicians.

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• the caliber and sonoric classiness of the musicians, and the quality of the production.

• first-rate Cuban musicians (including Barbarito Torres from the Buena Vista Social Club playing the laúd, a heftiercousin of a mandolin) apply vintage Cuban style to American R&B and hip-hop hits .