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Formed in the first ’60s when pianist/arranger Rafael Ithier led several musicians to break from Rafael Cortijo’s strap, Puerto Rico’s El Gran Combo is among the island’s longest-running & most celebrated salsa ensembles. Reverently referred to as La Universidad de la Salsa (the College or university of Salsa), the regularly …

Chico O’Farrill was ideal within the thick from the Afro-Cuban and Latin waves that strike jazz in the past due ’40s and ’50s. His advanced composing for Latin big rings of the first ’50s was frequently daring, brassy, and anxious, yet he may possibly also attain a delicate, nearly classical …

Intimate salsa vocalist José Cheo Feliciano began going after a profession in music young, dropping away from senior high school at 17 to review the very best salsa orchestras in NY. His devoted fascination with the city’s Latin music picture resulted in a stint being a valet for just one …

Ismael Rivera (Un Sonero Mayor “Maelo”) was created in Santurce, Puerto Rico, about Oct 5, 1931. Everything started on the same road Rivera was created and elevated on: Calle Calma. There he was instilled using the noises and rhythms of Puerto Rico: the bomba and plena. At a age group, …

Musical compartments mean nothing to David Amram, whose compositions and activities have crossed fearlessly backwards and forwards between the traditional and jazz worlds, in addition to those of Latin jazz, folk, television, and film music. Furthermore to his uncommon (to jazz) niche, the French horn, Amram in addition has documented …