What is your favorite group for Rumba and Santeria ?
Here is my list, the ** means a MUST for any rumberos music library
Rumba and Santeria CDs
See
http://www.Descarga.com for each Artist(many CDs for each)
See
http://www.orishaproductions.com for videos of Rumba and Bata
**Abilona Tambor Yoruba
Amura - Cantos Yoruba
**Francisco Aguabella - Bata y Bembe CDs
Ray Barreto - Que Viva la Musica
Candida Batista y sus Tambores Bata
**Cachao - Descarga series
**Carlos Embale
**Celeste Mendoza
Conjunto Fokklorico Nacional de Cuba
Cortijo y su Conjunto (Bomba/Plena)
**Conga Kings
**Cutumba
Despojo Santero
Grupo Experimental de Nueva York
**Grupo Afrocubano de Alberto Zayas
Farinas - Cajon De Muerto, Ecue
Grupo Chango Leye
**Los Papines - all of them
Jose Mangual (bongosero)
Milton Cardona - Bembe
**Mongo Santamaria - Yambu, Afro Roots, Drums + Chants
**Munequitos de Matanzas
**Patato, or Patato y Totico
Pello el AfroKan - Mozanbique
**Tata Guines - Aniversario, Pasaporte
**Tito Puente - Top Percussion
**Yoruba Andabo
Compilation CDs
**Grupo Afrocubano - Congas y comparsas
**Conga Desafora
**Carnavales Habaneros
**Deep Rumba
**Drum Jam
**House of Drums
**Rapsodia Rumbera
**Montvale Rumba
**Central Park Rumba - Eddie Bobe
**La Rumba de Cuba
**La Rumba Soy Yo
**Real Rumba from Cuba
**Tumi Cuba Classics volume 3 - Rumba
That is what I can come up for now, on the above groups, my all time favorites are: Patato y Totico and Afrocuba de Matanzas.