2023 reissue, originally released in 1972 - Considered by many Afro-Cuban music scholars to be a highlight of Barretto’s prolific career – as well as a touchstone of ‘70s salsa music, Que Viva La Música found the bandleader reaching a new apex. In liner notes for an earlier CD edition of the album, music journalist Ernesto Lechner wrote that the artist’s “transition from the early charanga and Latin soul excursions of the ‘60s to the hard-edged salsa sound of the ‘70s had been successfully completed. Barretto had raised the temperature of his music as high as it could possibly get. The beats, the swing, and the intensity of his musical manifesto was simply reckless. His band, too, had achieved a complete communion of musical souls….”
| A1 | Que Viva La Musica |
| A2 | Bruca Manigua |
| A3 | La Pelota |
| A4 | El Tiempo Lo Dira |
| B1 | Cocinando |
| B2 | Triunfo El Amor |
| B3 | Alafia Cumaye |
