Jazz Articles about Plena Libre

Plena Libre: Evoluci

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2005

To most of the world, the music of Puerto Rico is synonymous with salsa, the peppy, jazzed-up Afro-Caribbean music that surfaced in New York in the late '60s and sparked an enduring popular dance movement all its own. But the island is home for several other varieties of folkloric and popular music as well. (Strictly speaking, “salsa" was always more a marketing term than any specific style, in all truth. Even today the genre is still pretty wide open, and ...

Plena Libre:

by Javier AQ Ortiz
August 10, 2004

Plena Libre ¡Estamos gozando! Times Square Records 2004

In spite of the often quoted nationalistic blurbage found in liner notes, press releases, the printed press and even so-called scholarly sources, the bomba and plena genres aren't a sure fire formula for musical success, nor are they as popular as they are made to be at times. As it is true of assorted other musical styles in current and past history, the plena ...