Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and latin jazz styles — grooves, montunos, and repertoire.
by Rebeca Mauleón-Santana
★★★★⯨4.5The definitive montuno sourcebook — a century of Afro-Caribbean piano in 101 clave-marked patterns with bass tumbaos, written by someone who has lived every one of them.
by Nelson Faria & Cliff Korman
★★★★⯨4.5The only play-along that drops you inside a real Brazilian rhythm section — eight grooves, master players, and charts that teach your role, not just your part.
by Rebeca Mauleón
★★★★⯨4.5Thirty years on, still the definitive manual on clave, montunos, and how a salsa rhythm section actually locks — bring your own recordings and your own jazz harmony.
by Nelson Faria
★★★★⯨4.5The definitive manual for authentic samba, bossa, partido alto, and baião comping — written for guitar, but the rhythmic truth in it transfers to any comping instrument.
by Oscar Stagnaro & Chuck Sher
★★★★⯨4.5The definitive method for Latin bass grooves — 262 pages of Stagnaro's transcribed lines over three killer play-along CDs. Short on words, deep on feel.
by Carlos Del Puerto & Silvio Vergara
★★★★⯨4.5The primary source for Cuban bass — Irakere's bassist traces every tumbao from 1879 danzón to songo, with real transcriptions; thin on pedagogy, unmatched in authority.