Oliver Wang’s Soul Sides tracks classic soul, Latin soul, boogaloo in all their well-known and obscure incarnations, so I’m not surprised that he found out about Los Po-Boy-Citos’ debut album – which ...

New York's Latin music giant Joe Cuba died Sunday at age 78, after a long illness. As prolific as he was influential, Cuba was one of the main pioneers of the Latin soul movement in the 1960s, which ...

What Motown and Stax/Volt were to rhythm and blues, Fania Records occupied the same place in the world of Spanish-language music that evolved from boogaloo into salsa by the early to mid-’70s. Founded ...

“Ain't too many cats can get into that funk like we can get into the funk. Latin groups and jazz groups, they can do jazz, and they can do the Latin, but they can't do the funk like I can do it.” The ...

Joe Bataan and his band were young, talented and fast when they recorded the landmark album “Gypsy Woman" in 1967. It was finished in nine hours. “We were all a bunch of youngsters,” said Bataan to ...

In 1967, Joe Bataan’s first line of his first song off his first album is a chorus chanting “She smokes pot, ha!” With that, East Harlem’s Bataan, fresh out of the notorious Spofford juvenile ...

Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers will take the Kennedy Plaza stage in Atlantic City on Thursday, July 25, as the 14th annual Chicken Bone Beach Jazz on the Beach Series continues. The Chicken Bone ...

Image Source: Flushing Town Hall Although he mostly sings in English, Joe Bataan is known as the father of New York Latin Soul. In the 1970s, the Spanish Harlem native, whose heritage is Filipino and ...

Now 86, he reflects on his time at Fania Records, his tempestuous creative relationship with Eddie Palmieri and his exit from the industry he loves. By Jessica Lipsky Harvey Averne begins most days ...