Etta, 1962

Etta James - Something's Got A Hold On Me

I feel sad (when you run)

artist_julian.goldstein

nothing.everything

Tuxedomoon - In a Manner Of Speaking

und - wenn du lachst

Caballo Salvaje

Casiokids - En Vill Hest

Un mes.

Un mes. Un mes ya desde aquel viernes de agosto en la gran manzana en el que nos acercamos a la casa de verano de Nublu Club (24 1st Avenue betwen 1st and 2nd street) para disfrutar de lo que prometía ser, y acabó resultando, una exquisita velada de Latin Soul y Boogaloo.

Fue el combo newyorkino Spanglish Fly el que actuó aquella noche, grupo integrado, nada más y nada menos, que por 12 miembros (Atsushi Tsumura, trumpet; Charly Rodriguez, timbales; David Frankel, percussion; Dimitri Moderbacher, bass; Erica Ramos, lead vocals; Gabo Tomasini, percussion; Jonathan Flothow, bari sax; Jonathan Goldman a/k/a Jonny Semi-Colón, trumpet; Maria Eisen, tenor sax; Martin Wallace, piano; Mick Santurio, congas; Sebastian Isler, trombone). Y de recuerdo para casa, dos regalos: un CD de Joey Pastrana, cortesía del amabilísimo paisano y eminente DJ del género afincado en Manhattan DJ Turmix, y el directazo de la banda, una invitación a soñar, bailando en primera persona, con aquel sonido inventado en las calles de New York a mediados de los 60.

Alone

artist_aron.wiesenfeld

playa bikini-cocktail en hawaii

Modular - Playa Bikini

BOOGALOO: Música para el goce y el desparrame

"Jimmy Sabater remembers the night he kept coaxing his bandleader Joe Cuba to play a new number he had in mind. It was 1966 at the Palm Gardens Ballroom in midtown Manhattan, and the house was packed. "It was a black dance", Jimmy recalls, "de morenos, morenos americanos de Harlem and stuff, you know, they had black dances one night a week there and at some of the other spots. So that night we were playing selections from our new album, We Must Be Doing Something Right, that had just come out, the one with `El Pito’ on it, you know, `I’ll never go back to Georgia, never go back...’ The place was packed, but when we were playing all those mambos and cha chas, nobody was dancing.

So at the end of the first set, I went over to Joe Cuba and said, 

"look, Sonny (that’s his nickname), I have an idea for a tune that I think might get them up". 

And Joe says, 

"no, no, no, we got to keep on playing the charts from the new album".

Then toward the end of the second set, I went on begging him, and said, 

"look, if I’m wrong, we’ll stop and I’ll buy you a double". 

So finally he said o.k., and I went over to the piano and told Nick Jimenez, play this... Before I even got back to the timbal, the people were out on the floor, going `bi-bi, hah ! bi-bi, hah !’ I mean mobbed !" As Joe Cuba himself recalls, "suddenly the audience began to dance side-to-side like a wave-type dance, and began to chantchant and dance" 'she-free, she-free' sort of like an African tribal.

The new tune by the Joe Cuba Sextet was "Bang Bang". 

Within weeks, it was recorded and released as a single which soon hit the national Billboard charts and stayed there for ten weeks, one of the few Latin recordings ever to reach that level of commercial success. It even outdid "El Pito," which the year before had also made the charts, and the album on which "Bang Bang" appeared, Wanted : Dead or Alive, was a huge hit as well. It was the heyday of Latin boogaloo, and Joe Cuba’s band was at the height of its popularity" 

("Cha Cha With A Backbeat: Songs and Stories of Latin Boogaloo" - JUAN FLORES) 

 

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