Sexteto Boloña

Sexteto Boloña

A La Cuata Co y Co, Echale Candela, 1926

One of the very first groups to record son in Habana in the 1920s, Sexteto Boloña didn’t have the long career of sextetos Nacional and Habanero (who by the 1930s added trumpets and became septetos), but bandleader and tresero Alfredo Boloña (the tiny […]

Todd Young in Paris

The latest lineup for Todd Young and His Rock Band

Goodbye Argentina, Todd Young and His Rock Band, Here Comes the Music, 1998

My old friend Todd Young and his wife Jen were in town to visit last week. Todd also happens to be an excellent songwriter and performer, so I thought in honor of his visit I’d pull out a track from his album, “Here Comes […]

Illumination album cover

Angel of Sunlight, Illuminations, 1974

The year was 1974. Political turmoil, free-thinking, Eastern philosophy, and hallucinogens had virtually destroyed the boundaries between jazz and rock, latin- or otherwise. United by their devotion to Guru Chinmoy (who they would later discover was only exploiting their celebrity status to build […]