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Indice - Table of contents
History and Discography of Irakere 
- 1974 - Areíto 3420
- 1976 - Areíto 3660 & 3926
- 1978 - 3 Live Albums
- 1979 - Studio Sessions
- 1980 - El coco
- 1981 - Live in Caracas
- 1981 - Para bailar el son
- 1982 - Areíto 4018
- 1982 - Live in Puerto Rico
- 1983 - Calzada de cerro
- 1983 - Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional
- 1985 - Bailando así
- 1985 - Tierra en trance
- 1985 - Quince minutos
- 1987 - Live at Ronnie Scott's
- Into the Timba Era
- 1997 - Babalú ayé
- Summary
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History and Discography of Irakere - 1983 - Calzada de cerro
Areíto LD-4053 -- La colección Volume VII
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12 y 23 is a nice, but tame dance track and Calzada de Cerro, in spite of its very Cuban-sounding title, sounds like a warmed over version of Clare Fisher's over-played Latin jazz lounge standard Morning. But just when one's timba-centric attention span starts to run out, along comes El tata, (source - Vol. VII is currently unavailable), discussed in the previous section, to remind us how deeply indebted timba is to Irakere. It's a very satisfying fusion of batá and the type of Irakere dance groove that most directly pre-dates NG and the other timba bands of the 90s.
The album ends with a trio of tracks based on Arsenio Rodríguez compositions, a jazz ballad based on La vida es un sueño, an abstract solo piano version of Dile a Catalina, and a remake of the 1981 Catalina arrangement, but without the piano intro and with different soloists.
