I need to go back to the Pacheco & Cruz albums
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 03:25 (three years ago) link
Okay, it was pointed out to me that there was a personal recollection from the violinist Sam Bardfeld, who is a friend of friends and plays with a lot of name acts.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
Ugh, don't like the way that sounds.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
Been slowly digging into this scene over the last year. Don't know much Pacheco, but i stumbled on some Willie Rosario that I really liked. Justo Betancourt's Leguleya No album is my favorite so far.
― Heez, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:41 (three years ago) link
Willie Colon's Twitter feed is... disappointing.
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
there was a period of time when the Zavvi i had access to during my lunch hour was getting in Fania cd reissues overstocks and selling them off for £1 each.despite not being into salsa at all, i grabbed what i could when i could (about 12 albums in the end).when the sun comes out i still put them on and enjoy them more and more each time.
― mark e, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
A 2020 article on Alegre Records who recorded Pacheco before he later co-founded Fania
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/alegre-records-history/
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
Here he is with fellow legend, Queen Mother Celia Cruz and his collective Fania All Stars in Zaire in 1974. Johnny Pacheco conducting the musicians and dancing w Celia like a boss. It’s the joy. RIP Johnny Pacheco. pic.twitter.com/NUKYlxiKgN— Karla ~ Ovalle (@KarlaValley) February 15, 2021
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
that rules!!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/arts/music/johnny-pacheco-fania-records-playlist.html
Brief bio plus 15 cuts Pacheco was involved with
― curmudgeon, Friday, 19 February 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link
https://elpais.com/babelia/2021-02-25/johnny-pacheco-del-nuevo-tumbao-al-tumbao-anejo.html?ssm=TW_CC?event_log=oklogin&prod=REGCRARTBAB&o=cerrbab
The Cuban writer Leonardo Padura published last year Los rostros de la salsa (Tusquets), a book in which the author offers an intimate portrait of the genre through conversations with its main icons, such as Rubén Blades, Willie Colón, Juan Formell and Johnny Pacheco. We reproduce in full the one that he maintained in 1995 with the latter, who died on February 16 , in which he reviews his career from his frenetic adventures in New York in the seventies to the creation of the Fania record company and its consolidation as a name indispensable of Latin music.
An interesting interview translated to English
in addition to the charanga I had an ensemble that played in the style of the Sonora Matancera, Arsenio and Chapotín, and in '64 I was left alone with this group. So I started with thatCuban tumbao , but I added a tres and instead of the timbales I included a bongo and that's where "the new Pacheco tumbao " began, which would later be known as the " tumbao ", and now as the " old tumbao ", because I've been 30 years with the same formula. Since I learned it with Cugat, I always say that if a formula works, there is no reason to change it, and with that tumbao I have had the good fortune to record many of the greats of Latin music: Daniel Santos, Julio González, Pete Conde Rodríguez, Héctor Casanova, and my divine goddess, Celia Cruz.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
I have the English translation of that book, Faces Of Salsa, and it is a very good read.
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 08:21 (three years ago) link
I should get that book
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 6 March 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link
Thursday interview 7:30 et with Cita Rodriguez , singer w/ Mambo Legends Orchestra and daughter of Pete El Conde Rodriguez , Fania artist, sponsored by the Hostos Center for Arts & Culture as part of the Conversaciones Musica series
https://www.facebook.com/1661302984112144/posts/2861425087433255/?d=n
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link
RIP Fania label legendary pianist Larry Harlow
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/20/1029760076/larry-harlow-salsa-music-icon-dead
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 August 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
RIP Larry. Have been obsessed with this record for a while.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y9uwafGrlM
― "the fancy things" being his nads, etc (stevie), Monday, 23 August 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
Thanks. So many cool little elements to “Dame un Tipi”— the spoken tone of the woman vocalist, the steady driving clave backbeat via Harlow and others, the various instrumental touches thrown on top
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 August 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
The whole album is delicious. It's a shame it's so ridiculously expensive on Discogs!
― "the fancy things" being his nads, etc (stevie), Monday, 23 August 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link