The Recording Academy also offers a GRAMMY Award for Best Latin Jazz album, though that award is a part of a different field. Within the world of Latin music, the awards are: Best Latin Pop Album, Best Música Urbana Album, Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album, Best Música Mexicana Album (Including Tejano), and Best Tropical Latin Album. 10, the world will behold nominations in all categories - including several within the Latin, Global, African, Reggae & New Age, Ambient, or Chant field. While the Recording Academy’s sister academy, the Latin Recording Academy, naturally honors this world most comprehensively, it plays a crucial role in the GRAMMYs landscape just as in that of the Latin GRAMMYs - and there’s been crossover time and time again! The 2024 GRAMMY nominations are right around the corner - and as always, inspired Latin musical offerings will lie within the heart of the list. Watch Celia Cruz Win Best Salsa Performance At The First-Ever Latin GRAMMYs | GRAMMY Rewind

Celia & Johnny will be available exclusively via Vinyl, Me Please Classics as their October Record of the Month, while the other three can also be purchased via Craft Recordings. The release also notes this more album reissues will be coming soon, for 'an ongoing exploration and reevaluation of the Fania treasure trove.'Īll albums were cut from the original analog masters by remastering expert Kevin Gray and are getting released as 180-gram collectible color editions from Vinyl, Me Please. The vibrant artwork, which you can see in the photo below, has been replicated from the original artwork for this album, along with the other two reissued studio albums. 'In later decades, both artists would remember these releases as some of the best work of their careers, lamenting the fact that poor promotion at the time caused these excellent albums to go virtually unnoticed,' it states. This album features Colón, Cruz, Pacheco, Pete Rodriguez and others from their epic 1973 label concert at Yankee Stadium, which is being released on vinyl for the first time.Īs noted in the press release, Alma Con Alma is one of the handful of collaborative projects that GRAMMY and Latin GRAMMY winners Puente and Cruz recorded together in the '60s and '70s. The fourth record is a live double album by the Fania All Stars, Live At Yankee Stadium. The rereleases include Willie Colón's 1968 sophomore album The Hustler, Celia Cruzand Tito Puente's rare 1970 LP, Alma Con Alma, and Cruz and flautist and Fania Co-Founder Johnny Pacheco's 1974 collab album, Celia & Johnny. 25 and currently available for pre-order.

No, this isn't a scene from Santana's 1999 GRAMMY-winning smash hit, ' Maria Maria'-this is 1970s New York and Salsa is at peak popularity, and now, possibly your living room, thanks to brand-new vinyl reissues from Fania Records.Ĭraft Latino, which acquired the rich Fania collection via Concord in 2018, has announced the first batch of special-edition vinyl reissues, due out on Oct. A smiling stranger asks you to dance, and you nod as a singer's warm vocals take center stage, flowing with the dynamic instrumentals. Imagine entering a dimly lit room in Spanish Harlem to the sound of horns piercing the thick air.

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