Leo Acosta has been played on NTS shows including Supporter Radio: Metamorphosis, with Rencorosa first played on 19 October 2023.

Leo Acosta (Leobardo Acosta Quintanar) born in Huetamo, Michoacán, on July 7, 1925 in Mexico, was a drummer, composer, arranger and usually extremely pissed off during studio sessions when his comrades-in-arms made a mistake. Leo, as his friends affectionately called him, was an exceptional musician not only because of his artistic virtues, but also because of his social commitment that led him to confront the union leaderships that afflict musicians and composers; Due to this attitude he was persecuted and harassed socially and economically, without being able to bend his libertarian spirit by the dictators and their coriphees who always saw in him an insurmountable obstacle to their mandate of oppression and injustice. On the morning of 2 September 2007, he died at his home in Ciudad de México, leaving a difficult gap to fill in the jazz world. His participation in the beginnings of national rock and in innumerable films –musicalizing and acting– leave a legacy that belongs fortunately to Mexican art. On this funeral date we say: goodbye, Leo, may the gods of music welcome you into their bosom this day of mourning for Mexican jazz.