Best of Los Jardineros

Los Jardineros | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Yazoo
• ASIN: B000EZ916K
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,158 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Endemoniao (Possessed by the Devil)

2. Cafe Colao (Strained Coffee)

3. La Noche (The Night)

4. Novio Esplendido (Splendid Boyfriend)

5. Panchita (Panchita)

6. Agua Caliente (Hot Water)

7. Papa Roosevelt (Papa Roosevelt)

8. El Hombre Y La Mujer (The Man and the Woman)

9. Estrella de Oriente (Star of the East)

10. Impromptu (Impromptu)

11. Yuca Y Name (Cassava and Yam)

12. Los Jardineros Bombeando (The Jardineros Improvising)

13. Se La Voy A Decoser (I'm Going to Rip It)

14. Don Juan Tenorio (Sir John the Seductor)

15. Seis Jibaro (Puerto Rican Peasant Six)

16. El Pregonerito (The Little Street Peddler)

17. Jala La Cadena (Pull the Toilet's Chain)

18. El Vividor (The Freeloader)

19. Amada (Beloved)

20. Emma (Emma)

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 78 rpm reissue of the year!, June 9, 2006

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Dax Diaz (Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Los Jardineros (Audio CD)

If only stuff like this came out more often! A nice big booklet includes lyrics in Spanish and English and detailed notes tracing the development of the great Puerto Rican string band Los Jardineros. The pictures are priceless, including one of a clever advert claiming the group's manager will be publicly hung for selling the most beautiful records in Puerto Rico, which is half true; though he was never actually lynched, he did produce some fine aguinaldos, plenas, décimas, boleros, rumbas, guarachas, pasodobles, tangos, and fox trots- you name it- played not only by Los Jardineros, but also by Sexteto Okeh, Grupo Indiano, and Los Bohemios Puertorriqueños, all variations on a supergroup whose rotating cast included Fausto Delgado, Canario, Heriberto Torres, and Pedro Berríos, among many others, giants all of them, but unknown to most people from Puerto Rico today, the same way most people from the USA don't know who the hell Jimmie Rodgers, Uncle Dave Macon, Will Shade, and Jelly Roll Morton are anymore. Not that they sound at all like these people, but in terms of relative relevance, they are equals.

More music like this is needed and wanted, and I hope Yazoo and other labels keep releasing forgotten Caribbean treasures from the good old days. Cuba also remains underrepresented on CD in proportion to the number of folk records released, despite all the CDs by Tumbao, Harlequin, Arhoolie, Rounder, etc. There are too many important, and even more important than important, downright entertaining and enlightening songs from the Antilles that remain unissued in the CD age, clearly to the detriment of today's music there (and by extension, the people). The only way you can keep this kind of stuff coming out is buying yourself a copy already.

Also check out Lamento Borincano--Early Puerto Rican Music: 1916-1939 and Fausto Delgado's 1929-1942.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Increible, September 6, 2006

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L. Perez (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Los Jardineros (Audio CD)

Pienso que este cd es una joya para las personas que atesoran la musica tradicional puertorriqueña. Espero que esta compañia se anime a restaurar otras grabaciones de nuestro pentagrama que hoy dia se encuentran en el olvido

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Music, Terrible CD Package, April 6, 2007

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Jim - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Los Jardineros (Audio CD)

Other reviewers have described the contents of this CD package very well. The music is wonderful, especially if you enjoy string band music from the Caribbean. The accompanying CD booklet is top notch as well, in both English and Spanish. But like another reviewer noted, it's nearly impossible to remove the CD from its case without destroying the CD or the case, or both. The release button is very poorly designed. Too bad that an otherwise superb package is compromised by something so small yet so important. Five stars for the music and for the notes but zero stars for the CD case.