Jazz Articles about Roberto Roena

About Roberto Roena

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Roberto Roena: Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound

Read "Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
December 1, 2024

Mention Roberto Roena to any fan of Latin music, and salsa royalty is on the menu. This pioneering band, literally in the works as Neil Armstrong took Apollo 11 to the moon in the summer of 1969, took its name from the space program and is rightly considered a classic of the mixed genre--jazz, funk, rock, and Afro-Cuban music--that people everywhere came to call salsa. Roena, like Ismael Rivera, is (and was) an iconic figure on the island of Puerto ...

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Roberto Roema Y Su Apollo Sound: Roberto Roema Y Su Apollo Sound

Read "Roberto Roema Y Su Apollo Sound" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
August 3, 2024

Britain has been enriched by immigrants from many parts of the world, but people arriving from Spanish-speaking Central America and the Caribbean have been relatively few in number, and far less visible. So in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when salsa edged out of Spanish Harlem towards the US mainstream, Britain was mostly left out in the cold. The nearest most Brits got to Spanish-speaking US culture was through the perennially popular 1961 movie West Side Story (a good ...