Johnny Pacheco

A Great Day in Salsa, Indeed

by raquel on May 8, 2009

There was something off with the picture. On one side, there were about 50 of the greatest salseros on the planet waiting to have their group photograph taken: Johnny Pacheco, Ismael Miranda, Joe Bataan, (a skinny!) Tito Nieves, Bobby Sanabria, my  favorite “Marvelous Jew” Larry Harlow, the list goes on. And on the other side [...]

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gentrification blues

by raquel on March 7, 2009

A dear friend of mine and I were talking about the perils of gentrification—a subject that I’m passionate about and will be dedicating more posts too—and it made me think of Fania and the energy New York City had decades past, one that resulted in countless impulses of the creative kind.
From: Our Latin Thing (1971)

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