Orchestra H A R L O W

Larry HARLOW (birth name Lawrence Ira Kahn) is an American salsa musician, producer and composer born in 1939 in New York City.

• His nickname is El Judio Maravilloso, because of his Jewish descent.
• Larry Harlow studied music in the 1950s in Cuba...
• Larry and his orchestra, Orchestra Harlow, was the second orchestra signed to the Fania label.
• Larry Harlow produced over 100 albums for various artists and over 50albums on his own ...
• Among his popular albums were: Abran Paso and Tribute to Arsenio Rodriguez with Ismael Miranda

Abran Paso, Fania

Tribute to Arsenio Rodriguez, Fania

• Harlow was the first piano player for the legendary salsa group Fania All-Stars. He was also Fania's first record producer. 

Fania All-Stars in Venezuela, 1980

Orchestra Harlow - La Raza Latina

M A C H I T O (1908 - 1984)

... was a Latin jazz musician born as Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo in Havana, Cuba.

• in 1940 he formed the band the Afro-Cubans, in New York City. Mario Bauzá was the musical director.
• Machito made numerous recordings from the 1940s to the 1980s, many with Graciela, his foster sister.
• in 1983 Machito won a GRAMMY AWARD for Machito & His Salsa Big Bans '82. 

MACHITO and his Afro-Cubans 1941

José CURBELO and his orchestra

... was a Cuban-born American pianist and manager. He was also a key figure in Latin jazz in New York City in the 1940s.

 
https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/914970-Jose-Curbelo

• 1939 he moved to New York.
• early in the 1940s he played in the ensembles of Xavier Cugat, Juancito Sanabria, José Morand.
• 1942 he founded his own ensemble.
• 1959 he disbanded the group and took up managing and founding an agency for Latin musicians called Alpha Artists
• He died in 2012 in Aventura, Florida.

Curbelo wrote unforgettable songs like:

  - La Familia (1946)

  - La Runidera (1946)

  - Sun Sun Babae (1952)

B O L E R O

Bolero is a genre of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance.

There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.

SPAIN 
The bolero is a 3/4 dance that originated in Spain in the late 18th century. The inventor of  b o l e r o was the dancer Sebastian Carezo in 1780. The bolero ist danced by either a soloist or a couple.

CUBA
In 2/4 time, this dance music spread to other countries. The Cuban bolero tradition originated in Santiago de Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Pepe Sanchez is known as the father of the trova style and the ctreator of the Cuban bolero.

Some of the bolero's leading composers have come from nearby countries, as in the case of the prolific Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernández and the Mexican Agustin Lara.


Rafael Hernández             
 http://tiempodeboleros.eu/biografia/compositores/633-rafael-hernandez

La Sonora Matancera - Boleros de Oro

Chucho VALDÉS & IRAKERE

CHUCHO VALDÉS is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer, and arranger. He was born in 1941, in Quivicán, Cuba. He is the son of Bebo Valdés.

Chucho's father, Bebo Valdés, was the pianist and director the Tropicana Club orchestra and Orchestra Sabor de Cuba.















In 1967 Chucho and his bandmates founded Orchestra Cubana de Música Moderna...
In 1973 Chucho along with other members of the Orchestra Cubana de Música Moderna founded IRAKERE

 The Real Cuban Music, Legacy 2018

IRAKERE -  Cuba Libre, JVC 1980

 IRAKERE - Grupo IRAKERE, Areito 1976

LIVE at THE VILLAGE VANGUARD (2000) Blue Note Records
- the album won the GRAMMY AWARD for  Best Latin Jazz Album in 2001.