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soul • funk • deep funk • latin jazz • breaks • latin funk • boogaloo • rare grooves • latin soul • a la vejez viruelas
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| Decades Active: |
1990s
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2000s
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Wikipedia
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Biography
A black American with a passion for Latin music, Harry ‘Pucho’ Brown (1 November 1938, Harlem, New York, USA) started playing the ‘timbales’ (an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument) at the age of 14. In 1956 he joined the band of Joe Panama, with whom he stayed for the next 10 years until an evening in 1966 when Panama sacked the entire band, at which point Pucho took over as leader. Renamed Pucho And The Latin Soul Brothers, they quickly established themselves as a popular attraction on New York’s club circuit and were successful enough to perform at Carnegie Hall within a year. Between 1966 and 1970 the band released six albums on the Prestige label, featuring a mix of steamy Latin funk and soul jazz, plus cover versions of pop hits and string-laden instrumentals. Throughout the 70s and 80s they performed as a lounge act in the hotels and resorts around the Catskill Mountains. In the early 90s, DJs on the UK’s acid jazz scene started to...
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