Bobby Valentín

Bassist and trumpeter Bobby Valentín contributed greatly towards the Fania All-Stars through the ’70s (he was their theory arranger) and recorded several solo albums through the period, moving from boogaloo and Latin spirit into salsa while his profession progressed. Given birth to in Puerto Rico in 1941, Valentín was trained acoustic guitar by his dad before he actually entered college. By age 11, he’d received a contest having a music group he led and began monitoring alto sax and trumpet in the Jose Quinton Academy of Music in Coamo. Simply 15 when he relocated to NY in 1956, Valentín resolved in Washington Heights and continuing to review trumpet both at college and with famous brass instructor Carmine Caruso. He also discovered on the roads, using different trumpet trios including jazz participant Artwork Farmer and traditional trumpeter Louie Mucci. Valentín also shaped a music group with Chu Hernandez and Joe Quijano called Los Satelites, after that started playing appropriately in 1958 as part of Quijano’s brand-new orchestra. Through the following seven years, Valentín performed both trumpet, electric guitar, and bass using a roster of Latin heroes — Willie Rosario, Charlie Palmieri, Ray Barretto (his Orquestra Riverside), and Tito Rodriguez — and in addition wrote preparations for Rosario and Willie Bobo. In 1965, he debuted his very own orchestra and documented his initial LP, for Fonseca. Valentín’s group documented another LP that season, Un Mensajero, for a fresh label called Fania Records. Previously in the ’60s, Valentín got contributed preparations for label creator Johnny Pacheco, so that it was only organic he record for Pacheco’s brand-new label aswell. And although Valentín moved back again to Puerto Rico along with his orchestra by 1968, he produced frequent trips back again to NY to record for Fania through the past due ’60s and early ’70s. He also started working closely using the label’s in-house all-star music group, the Fania All-Stars, adding preparations and anchoring the audio along with his bass (after 1970, he seldom performed trumpet) on traditional middle-’70s LPs, like Live on the Cheetah, Live at Yankee Stadium, and Tribute to Tito Rodriguez. In 1978, Valentín started documenting for his very own label, Bronco Information, and triumphed with La Boda de Ella, perhaps one of the most essential produces of his profession. Though his reference to the Fania All-Stars continuing in to the ’90s, Valentín structured a well balanced of great performers around Bronco, including Willie Rosario and Orq. Mulenze. Actually apart from his globetrotting orchestra, he continued to be a active arranger around both Puerto Rico and NY, working on materials by Willie Digestive tract, Ismael Miranda, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Cheo Feliciano, and Justo Betancourt, amongst others.