Cocinando : Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art

Graphic designer and DJ Pablo Yglesias celebrates the best of Latin album cover art from the last 50 years. Organized by genre (jazz, soul, salsa, rock, etc.), the main part of the volume is devoted to full-page reproductions of album covers in vivid color. Each of the eight sections opens with a brief introduction by the author. A discography is found at the back of the volume. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Driving beats, coursing rhythms, swaying skirts, and swaggering bandleaders playing deep into the sultry night: Latin music is a celebration of life and sensuality, and nowhere are these essential values better reflected than the dazzling record covers that present this music to the world.

Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art draws together the most beautiful, sexy, colorful, innovative, and creative Latin record covers from all the various genres of Latin music: mambo, salsa, bossa nova, tropic lia, Latin jazz, and rock. Featured are covers by such legendary performers as Jo o Gilberto, Machito, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Ray Baretto, Caetano Veloso, Santana, and countless others.

Author Pablo Yglesias provides a compelling introduction to the history of Latin popular music and the designers who have brought this music to visual life.

In Cocinando! author Pablo Yglesias takes you on a Latin escapade through fifty years of the brightest, best, and most bizarre album covers in Latin music's history. From the bongo-toting likes of Desi Arnaz, Joe Cuba, and Tito Puente to the psychedelic trips of Santana, to contemporary releases from Los Lobos and Ibrahim Ferrer, Cocinando! covers all the bases. Sexy, innovative, mythic, beautiful - Cocinando! is a celebration of life, music, and art, showcasing album covers over the decades from legends like Celia Cruz, Caetano Veloso, Orchestra Harlow, Tom Ze, and more.