Tag Archives: Boogaloo

Formed within the Bronx portion of Southview through the past due ’60s, the Latinaires had been one among dozens of young Latin rings who created the boogaloo sound. Shaped having a type of saxophones rather than the predominant brass, the Latinaires released Camel Walk within the Fania label in 1968. …

Delivered to Puerto Rican parents. Were only available in music in 1940. His initial work was with Un Sexteto Caney, after that followed stints using the Sensemaya Children, Jose Curbelo, Ralph Font, Noro Morales, and Juanito Sanabria. He offered 18 months in america Army. Being a civilian in 1947 he …

Ralfi Pagan passed without building a significant tag within the music market, however, not because he didn’t try. Elevated on the low East Part of NEW YORK, he was area of the city’s bubbling salsa picture within the ’60s and past due ’70s. His primary body of function — four …

In the 1960s, nobody combined pretty much equal components of jazz, Latin music, soul, and funk in addition to Henry “Pucho” Brown (b. November 1, 1938). A relatively forgotten number until lately, Pucho never accomplished the wide acknowledgement of various other Latin jazz performers discovering similar territory, such as for …

While Ray Barretto’s congas have graced even more recording classes than just about any additional conguero of his period, he in addition has led some refreshingly progressive Latin jazz rings over the years. His records frequently have a more anxious, even more adventurously eclectic advantage than those of all conventional …

Vocalist Johnny Rivera was created and raised within the bosom of the Puerto Rican family members settled in New York’s Bronx, and studied in Manhattan’s Benjamin Franklin SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. After a short-term stop by at Puerto Rico, the designer returned to NY, getting mixed up in tropical music picture. …

The older brother of Eddie Palmieri, Charlie Palmieri was just as gifted a pianist as his sibling, extremely percussive and attentive to rhythm while also flashing florid passages which were clearly the merchandise of the classical education. His piano research started at seven and he went to the Juilliard College …

A fierce timbales participant who recorded many LPs for Cotique through the later ’60s, Joey Pastrana was fluent within the then-current fads of Latin spirit and boogaloo but additionally ended up using some amazingly jazzy Latin music during his profession. Of his work with Cotique, Joey en Carnavale as well …

A timbalero because the age group of 10, Joe Torres was raised in Spanish Harlem but moved away to LA through the mid-’50s. Through the ’60s, he made an appearance in two Elvis photos (Viva NEVADA, Fun in Acapulco) and documented his only recording, 1968’s Latino Con Spirit, for Globe …

b. 27 Sept 1935, Puerta De Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The flexible Latin music group head, vocalist, percussionist and composer Quijano was seven years when his family members settled within the Bronx, NEW YORK, NY, USA. In 1950, while at college he sang and performed maracas using a teenage …