― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
this album kicks major ass. one of the santanas plays wicked guitar. i dunno why i never pursued salsa further, but if it's anything like this album, i really should (so daunting though, a whole gigantic genre to pick from)
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 2 June 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Justo Bentacourt: Pa Bravo Yo (1972)
http://ring.cdandlp.com/diaspora/photo_moyenne/21486947.jpg
I have to be in the mood for this one, and I admit my opinion of it has fluctuated a lot, but it's good. It sounds like this sticks pretty closely to Cuban models, compared to some salsa. (I'm going to have to use "salsa" in a broader sense than I usually prefer to use it, in order to discuss this, but I think it was used that way more often in the 70s. Anyway, this CD, for instance, has a couple boleros on it.)
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
I took a salsera friend to see the Sun Ra Arkestra one New Year's Eve (back when my life was temporarily fairly interesting). Because of a joint fund-raising effort between the Painted Bride Art Center (I think, unless it was some larger umbrella organization they belong to) and AMLA (Asociación de Músicos Latino Americanos), AMLA people had a presence at the show. They were playing Latin music during the intermission. "Pa Bravo Yo" came on and my friend and I looked at each other like: "We're going to have to dance to this one, aren't we?" but then the Arkestra came on and the song was cut off, leaving me momentarily disappointed.
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.cdbueno.it/copertine%20cd%20salsa%20vecchia/el%20juicio.jpg
Really good varied set of songs that work together well as an album. Ironic trombones.
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.danzaymovimiento.de/data/images/jmax/jmax-fn000500.jpg
Pretty good, but not as good as. . .
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.link-age.or.jp/boca/disc/cg/022a.jpg
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Willie Colon/Mon Rivera: There Goes the Neighborhood (1975)
(Only available image I can find is too small to bother with.) Siembra was from 1978, I forgot to say, and Metiendo Mano was from 1977.
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Not nearly as trippy as one may expect from the title and cover but it does have the original Deeper Shade of Soul that the Urban Dance Squad expanded on so brilliantly.
― jared, Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― jared, Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Orchestra Harlow: Hommy: A Latin Opera (1973)
http://www.laconga.org/images/recomendados/hommy.gif
This has some spoken parts which aren't great fun for me as a non-speaker of Spanish, but there are some very good moments. Celia Cruz's "Gracia Divina" and Cheo Feliciano's track (I forget which one that is) are both particular stand-outs. There's a string section, but it all works out pretty well.
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Johnny Pacheco: El Maestro (1975)
http://www.danzaymovimiento.com/data/images/jmax/jmax-fn000485.jpg
The album is too Cuban for me, or something. I don't really want to have to look at his ass in tight white pants either.
Ray Barretto: The Message (1972)
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/barret_ray~_message~~_101b.jpg
I don't understand why this is supposed to be so great, but I don't like Barretto (or Pacheco) all that much.
The Fania All Stars: Live at the Cheetah Vol. 1 (1974)
http://www.danzaymovimiento.com/data/images/jmax/jmax-fn000415.jpg
Good cover. I'm not really into this, despite its alleged historical importance. (I don't doubt it really.) It does have a 7:29 version of "Anacaona" sung by Cheo Feliciano, but I prefer the album version. But Cheo Feliciano is pretty much always good, especially on recordings from this era.
Orchestra Harlow: Salsa (1977)
http://www.mambo-inn.com/images/fot-sarav-21-03.jpg
I like Junior Gonzalez's vocals, and I like other things about this album. "La Cartera" has grown on me somewhat, but I'm not a big fan of charanga (an orchestration usually involving violin and flute). So it probably really is great, but I haven't got into as of yet.
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 2 June 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Ray Barretto - AcidMonguito Santamaria - Hey SisterGeorge Guzman - Introducing George GuzmanJoe Bataan - Subway JoeOrchestra Harlow - Heavy Smookin
these are probably on the funkier/more soulful side of things being that they're in wax poetics
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 3 June 2005 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link
ray barretto - acid, hard handswillie colon - crime pays, la gran fuga, siembra
ok, where next? which allstars albums? i am on the lookout for "latin - soul - rock". should i grab the yankee stadium discs, or "salsa" first?
recommend me some good ruben blades and larry harlow discs.
and then let's start expanding outward. my favorite track so far has been baretto's "ahora si" off of "hard hands". i guess this means my taste runs toward acoustic mid-tempo descarga (charanga?) with really busy percussion sections. celebratory, if possible, heavy jazz influence is cool, too. not so big on the latin rock angle.
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
(arabic / indian music still too serious and close to home for me to get into)
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't actually know much about Blades away from Willie Colon.
You'd probably like Barretto's Rican/Struction.
(I still have to say: I think you are going about things the wrong way by eliminating non-Fania label stuff from the 70s. A lot of the best recordings were not on Fania per se.)
Larry Harlow's Live in Qaud is good. I still haven't heard a whole bunch of Harlow I'm interested in hearing. If you're sure you like charanga, check out Harlow's Salsa! though it's not my cup of tea.
I like most of the Fania All Stars' Commitment from 1980.
How about Sabor con Angel Canales? Lots of mid-tempo, stretched out stuff.
Bobby Valentin's Afuera and La Boda de Ella are both good, with some amazing material included.
I'm pretty big on Palmieri at the moment. No interest in hearing more of him?
(No wait Acid is 1972.)
If I get back into a CDR making mood, I might be willing to send some things, but I'm a little burned out on it right now. (Why did you never request any salsa mixes on the thread for that?)
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
and also - by all means, let's expand out past fania!!
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Since we're going beyond Fania, let me recommend Cheo Feliciano's Cheo (if you don't mind some boleros). He sang with the Fania All Stars as well, of course. Also, some earlier material: Cheo Feliciano: The Best With Joe Cuba Sextet is mostly fantastic.
Hmmmm, listening to "Hard Hands" now. This has a real Latin soul/boogaloo sort of thing going on.
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link
The only one I've heard is "Salsa" but it's really hard for me to listen to because while the music is great it gets interrupted by lots of introductions, audio interview and weird field recording bits. The sound quality is terrible too.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Eddie Palmieri? I have Harlem River Drive which is great in a funky soul jazz way. Did he do anything more salsa oriented?
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Eddie Palmieri
At the moment I am especially pushing Azucar Pa' Ti, Unfinished Masterpiece, Eddie Palmieri & Cal Tjader - Bamboleate, Lucumi, Macumba, Voodoo (although it includes some weird experiments with fusion, disco, etc.), and Palo Pa' Rumba (from 1984). All the material with his band La Perfecta (the original, not the recent reincarnation) is worth checking out, although the sound is uniformly very bad.
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I just downloaded "Hard Hands" so I could help out and I'm still not sure about Barretto's "Ahora Si!"
"Descarga" is more like, very open-ended, improvisation-oriented, sort of like jazz, but too far over on the Latin dance side of things to really be Latin jazz (though it's not an obvious distinction). I don't think "Hard Hands" is Latin jazz. It sort of straddles the line between salsa and Latin soul, I think.
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― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
vahid, you may simply want to stay in the 60s and early 70s if you want similar things. Hmmm, might like Azuquita's Pura Salsa which is from a bit later but retains some Latin soul/boogaloo feel.
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 July 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Helpfully "currently unavailable." I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to find one way or another.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 2 July 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
I find Lavoe boleros a little too wrist-slitty at the moment. I just don't need to go there right now.
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 2 July 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
boleros is exactly what i want - thanks.
i think i might just buy more la lupe actually.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 11 July 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
does anyone know anything about ray rodriguez? been listening a lot to his Ray Rodriguez Y Su Orquesta Lp and in all my basically ignorant enthusiam, loving it!
― Dominique, Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry to say I'm really not familiar with Ray Rodriguez, but I once heard something by him on the radio that I liked enough to add the album it came from to my long-term to-buy list.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
I never mentioned to titchy that there's a Celia Cruz collection of nothing by boleros, and I've liked what I've heard from it. I probably should own it, but don't:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BYY05M4EL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 12 August 2011 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
Today I was walking around and I heard this awesome salsa music coming out of a parked car but with this very 70s sounding synth in the intro. I liked it so much that I asked the dude what it was, and it was Roberto Roena. He showed me the CD, but it was just a bootleggy-looking thing like one of those CDs you get at the little Spanish record stores, so it could have been from any record.
So, anyone know of a Roberto Roena record with synths on it?
― Disraeli Geirs (Hurting 2), Sunday, 9 October 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
I have no idea. I'm glad this has been expanded beyond Fania, though -- I love the Fania sound but there is a lot more out there. Lots of stuff I haven't heard too!!
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 October 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
I'll see what I can come up with, once I'm off work. I think I've probably only heard 1/3 of Roena's output at this point, maybe less. He definitely did some "progressive" sorts of things, sometimes successfully, sometimes less so. I don't think this is the one you're looking for, but La 8Va Maravilla is great and doesn't seem to be talked about that much. Of course, it's also out of print, but it's not impossible to find otherwise.
― Cal Jeddah (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 October 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
I would guess late 70s/very early 80s, but I suppose that's not too helpful. Anything else about the song? Was it in the usual clave rhythm, or was it different? (Roena worked/works with Afro-Rican folkloric rhythms, Brazilian rhtyhms, etc. a fair amount.)
― Cal Jeddah (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 October 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
I have Roena's first 10 albums in my iPod, but don't have time to go through them right now. Will check tomorrow.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 9 October 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Did you buy most of those as downloads? I probably need to do more of that.
― Cal Jeddah (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 9 October 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
from Roena's wiki site:
Complementing the musicality of the salsa group was always the showmanship inherent in Roberto Roena. Dying his hair in new colors, playing percussion in his underwear and sporting a harness so he could “fly” around the stage of New York City's Madison Square Garden were some of the tricks that he used to stand out among the other groups in vogue. In fact, a noted journalist that followed Apollo Sound once remarked that they were “the first group in Puerto Rico with a system of psychedelic lights and go-go girls.”
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 9 October 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I only have about four on physical CD; the rest I got digitally. They're all killer. The first couple are pretty weird - he's got songs in English, including covers of Sly and the Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song" and Blood, Sweat & Tears' "Spinning Wheel."
― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 9 October 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
I did do a half-hearted search of the Roena I have (especially one CD I suspected in particular) but never found a song that fit that description.
Not a big Ray Barretto fan, I particularly like this song (though I haven't heard the whole album):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-fvX6E8mI
― On the Heat Release of Burning Karaoke Music Compartments (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 13 November 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
I need to check into him further.
So I see that Will Hermes has a new book out about music in NYC from 73 to 77 called "Love Goes to Buildings on Fire" that apparently includes some writing about Fania
From New Year’s Day 1973 to New Year’s Eve 1977, the book moves panoramically from post-Dylan Greenwich Village, to the arson-scarred South Bronx barrios where salsa and hip-hop were created, to the Lower Manhattan lofts where jazz and classical music were reimagined, to ramshackle clubs like CBGBs and The Gallery, where rock and dance music were hot-wired for a new generation. As they remade the music, the musicians at the center of the book invented themselves: Willie Colón and the Fania All-Stars renting Yankee Stadium to take salsa to the masses, New Jersey locals Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith claiming the jungleland of Manhattan as their own, Grandmaster Flash transforming the turntable into a musical instrument, David Byrne and Talking Heads proving that rock music “ain’t no foolin’ around.” Will Hermes was there—venturing from his native Queens to the small dark rooms where the revolution was taking place—and in Love Goes to Buildings on Fire he captures the creativity, drive, and full-out lust for life of the great New York musicians of those years, who knew that the music they were making would change the world.
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Goes-Buildings-Fire-Changed/dp/0865479801
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 November 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
The new 2CD Ismael Rivera compilation (part of Fania's "A Man And His Music" series) is fucking great. Goes all the way from the '50s to 1980. 45 songs.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Monday, 14 November 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Mn4iI-4qw
is my jam lately
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Sunday, 20 January 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jpvR9q9ECM8#t=255s
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 21 January 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
entire fania all stars in africa concert:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS6QB8r0vcM
I love everything about this -- johnny pacheco's crazy kids show host act, the way it's shot, the seemingly overwhelming numerosity of the band (partly an illusion), the coked-up happy vibe of it, bobby valentin's sick behind the beat basslines against on top of the beat percussion, roberto roena crazy legs dancing followed by a badass 70s five
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Sunday, 21 April 2013 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
sry, this is the complete concert:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2-ZmO13_dI
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Sunday, 21 April 2013 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
thx for posting, need to watch this
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 April 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
there's a record of the concert too, on spotify. doesn't seem to have the whole thing, but has some neat additional bits, e.g. what sounds like a soukous band welcoming them at the airport and maybe jamming with some of the fania guys?
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 April 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
cross currents between african and latin american pop music post-WWII are really fascinating
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 April 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
like those vids. feel like they could use a few more guys up on stage, though.
― Spectrum, Monday, 22 April 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, kind of a threadbare lineup, very minimal
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 April 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
The CD (which was recently reissued as a CD/DVD set - I own it) is very weird; there's almost no music from the concert, it's all rehearsal stuff and the aforementioned recording of African musicians, etc. - it's like a Smithsonian Folkways album or something. But the DVD, which has the concert footage as well as rehearsal, backstage, footage of bandmembers just wandering around Kinshasa, etc., is killer.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 22 April 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
want
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Monday, 22 April 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/arts/music/johnny-pacheco-dead.html
RIP Johnny Pacheco, co-founder of Fania, a Dominican born , NYC raised flautist, songwriter, bandleader who brought salsa & charanga to the world. Was involved with a number of Celia Cruz albums
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 13:35 (three years ago) link
RIP... absolute legendhttps://img.discogs.com/xCHnJRHRvKFVVl5tKkzIy6goJnc=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2952899-1536074905-9015.jpeg.jpg
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
RIP. I didn’t see any personal reminiscences on Friendbook. At first I thought maybe people had some beef with him but he guess he just didn’t really play with any of the Latin Jazz cats that are around now.
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 20:08 (three years ago) link
On twitter Willie Colon took a brief break from tweeting right-wing memes, to tweet 6 times re Pacheco.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
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