[JanetMorris]

OK - here's a few. Like you guys, I have a bunch of straight ahead shit I'd like to see too, but I'll keep to the Latin-Jazz end of the spectrum here ('cause no one else will... ;-)

Israel Lopez "Cachao" (Bass). Please!! He's 85 and still going strong!! The inventor of the mambo, the king of the Descarga (=latin jam session. Literally: Spanish for "discharge").

Ralph Irrizarry and Timbalaye. Killin' timbal/kit player and his killin' electric band.

Ray Barretto (congas). He played with BIRD, for fuck sake! His new album "Homage to Art" (Blakey) is destined to be a classic -
with the youthful Miguel Zenon on Alto and Luis Perdomo on Piano.

John Benitez Trio (bass) with Perdomo on piano and the amazing Dafnis Prieto on drums

David Murray Latin Big Band (WITH the Cubans, please)

Julio Padron (trumpet) Quintet

Tony Martinez (Alto) and Maferefun. It would be nice if he brought Gonzalo on piano, Padron on trumpet, and Julio Barretto on drums

And for the Commodore:

Giraldo Piloto and Klimax (Cuba). This drummer composes and arranges the most harmonically complex shit in Timba (contemporary Cuban Salsa). Most jazz players I know who've heard his tunes would love to try soloing on them...

Issac Delgado & Orch. (Cuba)

Bobby Valentin (Puerto Rico)

Pedro Pablo y su Rebambaramba (Cuba) So I could hang with my buddy Pedro Pablo Gutierrez (bass).

Al