Tierra Prometida

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Nota de caja: recorded live at El Más Allá on October 2, 2026. Part 1 of 4, the start of the night.

The first of four sides from one night. Lado 004 — Tierra Prometida runs about 82 minutes, with 21 tracks listed below. It starts in Latin jazz and salsa, moves through funk, spiritual jazz, Ethio-jazz, Brazil and jazz-funk, and ends back in Latin jazz with Irakere.

How this side moves

Jerry Gonzalez’s Evidence and Eddie Palmieri’s Helado De Chocolate set a Latin jazz pulse early, and Willie Colon and Hector Lavoe’s Qué Lío tips it into salsa.

Then the funk: Harvey Mason’s Till You Take My Love, Peter Brown, and Crown Heights Affair’s Far Out. Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders’ Journey In Satchidananda slows it into spiritual jazz, and from there it travels: Mulatu Astatke, Gary Bartz, then Marcos Valle’s On Line.

Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and The Blackbyrds keep it in jazz-funk, with Mulatu Astatke’s Yègellé Tezeta (My Own Memory) slipped in between. John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Pt. I – Acknowledgement is the long breath in the middle of the side.

Gal Costa’s Vatapá, Bronx River Parkway’s Song For Ray, Arthur Verocai’s Velho Parente and The O'Jays’ I Love Music carry the last stretch, and Irakere closes on Bacalao Con Pan.

Primer lado de cuatro, grabado en vivo en El Más Allá. La noche apenas arranca.

Also on En la Sala: Lado 001 — Murmullo · Lado 002 — Jazz Funk Experience · Lado 003 — Freedom Time · Lado 005 — Everything Is Everything · Lado 006 — Cavaleiro · Lado 007 — Qué Lío · Series guide · What is · La Sala · Mixes that move a party · Contact / Bookea