One of the can’t-miss releases of this year’s Record Store Day had to be a deluxe reissue of Willie Colón’s 1971 masterpiece La Gran Fuga, a defining moment for both Fania Records and Nuyorican Salsa ...
One of the can’t-miss releases of this spring’s Record Store Day was a deluxe reissue of Willie Colón’s 1971 masterpiece, La Gran Fuga, a defining moment for both New York’s pioneering Fania Records ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Willie Colón, the musician and social activist who helped pioneer Salsa music in the 1960s and 70s at Fania Records, is currently being treated at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital ...
There are many routes running through the Latin jazz landscape, and Jazz at the Bowl sampled three distinctly different ones Wednesday night. From the Afro-Cuban big band connection between New York ...
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