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Imagen Latina is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

by Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

n music

Music

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ian Alberto Naranjo

Alberto Naranjo

Alberto Naranjo [nah-rahn'-ho] is a musician. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. His mother, the singer Graciela Naranjo, was a radio, film and television pioneer in her homeland...

, 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

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

term used in Venezuelan baseball slang to describe an All-Star

All-star

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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

Trina Medina

Trina Medina is a Venezuelan Salsa and Son singer, songwriter and music arranger. She wrote the music for the 2007 Venezuelan film Una abuela virgen, the music for the 1999 film At Midnight and a Half and the soundtrack for the film I Like It Like That includes Trina's rendition of Anda Y Camina. ...

, Carlos Daniel Palacios and Mauricio Silva; noted folklorists

Folklore

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as Simón Díaz

Simón Díaz

Simón Narciso Díaz Márquez is a singer and Grammy Award winning composer of Venezuelan music.- Career :Díaz has endeavored to recover the folklore and musical traditions of the llanos, the Venezuelan plains...

, Cecilia Todd

Cecilia Todd

Cecilia Todd is a singer and cuatro executant.From very young the love of music, initially fed by her family group, awakened in Cecilia...

and the group Serenata Guayanesa

Serenata Guayanesa

Serenata Guayanesa is a vocal and instrumental quartet that plays typical Venezuelan folk music. It is one of the two best known groups playing this music .-Origins of the group:...

; pop singer María Rivas

María Rivas

María Rivas is a Venezuelan Latin jazz singer, composer, and occasional painter.-Career:Born in Caracas, Venezuela of Spanish mother and Venezuelan father, Rivas gradually built her voice skills as a hobby, absorbing the influences ofIn 2005 Rivas returned to Aruba to be part of the show "Good...

, jazz pianist Otmaro Ruiz

Otmaro Ruiz

Otmaro Ruíz is a Venezuelan pianist, keyboardist, composer and arranger.-Career:Ruíz began his formal musical studies at the age of eight on piano, classical guitar, harmony, history and aesthetics. He also was exposed to other artistic activities such as drawing and acting...

, and the polifacetic Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.-Biography:...

. 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, this group defied all salsa conventions in the 1970s. The eclectic body of Naranjo's work shows some debt to Billo Frómeta

Billo Frómeta

Billo Frómeta was a Dominican Republic orchestra conductor, arranger and composer who lived and worked most of his life in Venezuela, where he is remembered.- Early career :...

, Tito Puente

Tito Puente

Tito Puente, , born Ernesto Antonio Puente, was a Latin jazz and Salsa musician. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, of Spanish Harlem in New York City, Puente is often credited as "El Rey de los Timbales" and "The King of Latin Music"...

and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band

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, preferring traditional guaracha, jazz, bolero, mambo and Venezuelan genres, creating a sophisticated and distinctive sound with accessible melodic hooks, complex harmonies and time signatures, and 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

Netherlands

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introduced it at the international level.

Track listing

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| 1 || Al fin juntas || Alberto Naranjo
Jesús Rosas Marcano

Jesús Rosas Marcano

Jesús Rosas Marcano , was a Venezuelan educator, journalist, poet and composer of folk songs popularized by the group Un Solo Pueblo, such as "Botaste la bola" and "Negro como yo"....

|| Canelita Medina

Canelita Medina

Canelita Medina is a Venezuelan salsa singer noted for singing in the Cuban Son style. She had always dreamt of becoming a singer as a young girl, imitating the salsa singer Celia Cruz and when she entered a radio talent program on Radio Continente, she caught the attention of talent agents with...

Trina Medina

|| Pedro Vilela || 6:22
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| 2 || Te amo || Mauricio Silva || Mauricio Silva || || 5:07
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| 3 || El chivo || Balbino García || Carlos Daniel Palacios
Carlos Espósito || Federico Britos || 4:50
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| 4 || Calipso de El Callao || Folklore || Serenata Guayanesa || Saúl Vera || 4:12
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| 5 || El corazón del Caribe || Trina Medina

Trina Medina

|| Trina Medina

Trina Medina

|| || 3:25
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| 6 || Se baila así || Manolo del Valle|| Carlos Daniel Palacios || || 4:36
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| 7 || Sin tu mirada || Rafael Salazar || Cecilia Todd || Federico Britos || 3:46
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| 8 || Hace rato || Ricardo Hernández || Carlos Espósito || || 4:09
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| 9 || Qué vale más || Simón Díaz

Simón Díaz

|| Simón Díaz || Benjamín Brea || 4:12
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| 10 || Señor Tiempo || Carlos Espósito
Alberto Borregales
Justo Vega || Carlos Espósito || Alberto Vergara || 5:42
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| 11 || Amor de alquiler || Alberto Naranjo
Jesús Rosas Marcano || María Rivas || Aldemaro Romero || 6:12
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| 12 || Boleros Venezolanos || || || || 6:58
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| a-|| Soñando despierto || Aníbal Abreu || Vladimir Lozano ||
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| b-|| Me queda el consuelo || Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero

Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo State.-Biography:...

|| Vladimir Lozano || Manuel Freire
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| c-|| No volveré a encontrarte || Carlos J. Maytín || Vladimir Lozano || Lucio Caminiti
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| 13 || Sin mañana ni ayer || Alberto Naranjo
Jesús Rosas Marcano || Hughette Contramaestre || || 5:07
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| 14 || Alna's Mambo || Alberto Naranjo || Instrumental || Alberto Naranjo
Otmaro Ruiz || 7:08
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| || || || || Total time || 71:48
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Personnel

Alberto Naranjo - leader, arranger, drums on all tracks; timbales (dubbed) on 11, 14
Alberto Lazo - acoustic piano on all tracks, except on 12
Lucio Caminiti - acoustic piano on track 12
Yrvis Méndez - bass guitar on all tracks, except on 12
José Velázquez - bass guitar on track 12
Benjamín Brea - saxophone or woodwins on all tracks, except on 12
(soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes; flute, piccolo)
Gustavo Aranguren and Rafael Rey - trumpet and/or flugelhorn on all tracks, except on 12
César Pérez - trombone on all tracks, except on 12
Gerardo Rosales - congas or additional percussion on all tracks, except on 12
Franklin Rojas - bongos or additional percussion on all tracks, except on 12
Francisco Rojas - timbales or additional percussion on all tracks, except on 12
Felipe Rengifo - congas on track 12
Jesús Quintero - bongos on track 12
Carlos Daniel Palacios - lead vocal on tracks 3, 6 and chorus
Carlos Espósito - lead vocal on tracks 3, 8, 10 and chorus

Guests

Lead vocals

Canelita Medina
Canelita Medina
Canelita Medina is a Venezuelan salsa singer noted for singing in the Cuban Son style. She had always dreamt of becoming a singer as a young girl, imitating the salsa singer Celia Cruz and when she entered a radio talent program on Radio Continente, she caught the attention of talent agents with...

- track 1
Trina Medina
Trina Medina
Trina Medina is a Venezuelan Salsa and Son singer, songwriter and music arranger. She wrote the music for the 2007 Venezuelan film Una abuela virgen, the music for the 1999 film At Midnight and a Half and the soundtrack for the film I Like It Like That includes Trina's rendition of Anda Y Camina. ...

- tracks 1, 5
Mauricio Silva - track 2 (trombone solo add)
Serenata Guayanesa - track 4
Cecilia Todd - track 7
Simón Díaz - track 9
María Rivas - track 11
Vladimir Lozano - track 12
Hughette Contramaestre - track 13

Musicians

Pedro Vilela - Cuban tres and electric guitar on track 1
Federico Britos - violin solo on tracks 3, 7
Saúl Vera - mandolin solo on track 4
Alberto Vergara - vibraphone solo on track 10
Aldemaro Romero - acoustic piano cadenza and solo on track 11
Manuel Freire - saxes and woodwins on track 12
(soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxes; C flute, G flute, clarinet and bass clarinet – all dubbed)
Otmaro Ruíz - acoustic piano solo on 14
Strings section on track 12
- Violins: Alberto Flamini (concertmaster), Carmelo Russo, Sigfrido Chiva, Grigorije Girovski,
  Bogdan Biegniewski, Inocente Carreño, Sigfrido Chiva, Boris Jivkov, Alejandro Ramírez
- Violas: Francisco Molo, José Olmedo
- Cellos: Lauren Levenson, Bodgan Trochanowski
- Harp: Alba Quintanilla

Other credits

Producers: Alberto Naranjo and Orlando Montiel
Executive producers: Mariela León and Freddy León
Staff coordinator: Freddy Sanz
All tracks were recorded and mixed at Estudios Intersonido by Augie Verde (1992),
except track 12, recorded and mixed at Estudios Sono Dos Mil by Ricardo Landaeta (1980)
Mastered at Formacol, Venezuela
ID: LEON CD 1140
PD: 21592613
Releases
- Leon CD-1140 (1992)
- Merusa CD-9253 (2002)
- Leon CD-1140-B (2008)
Recorded and produced in Caracas, Venezuela, 1992

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