Fania All Stars Live At Yankee Stadium Vol.1 &2 Red 2xLP Ltd 464/1000 Celia Cruz
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Fania All Stars Live At Yankee Stadium Vol.1 &2 Red Vinyl 2xLP Ltd Ed 464/1000 Celia Cruz Archival Sleeve
Who's Who of Latin Musicians in rare form .....Essencial 1st photo stock rest actual item
VMP is liquidated I had to file a claim for records I purchased be careful buying you won't get product
Superb pressing by Vinyl Me Please. No pops, clicks or distortion. Good separation of instruments and soundstaging. An essential document of the Fania label and artists. And everyone must hear this version of Celia Cruz's "Bemba Colora" before they die. A true classic.
Cut all analog from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. Foil stamped and numbered. Limited edition of 1000.
- Bass – Bobby Valentin
- Bongos – Roberto Roena
- Congas – Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto
- Coro – Bobby Cruz, Cheo Feliciano, Hector Lavoe, Ismael Miranda, Ismael Quintana, Justo Betancourt, Pete Rodriguez, Santos Colón
- Cuatro – Yomo Toro
- Directed By [Recording Director], Music Director – Johnny Pacheco
- Guest, Saxophone – Manu Dibango (tracks: D3)
- Guest, Vocals – Celia Cruz (tracks: A3, C2)
- Piano – Ricardo Ray
- Piano, Engineer – Larry Harlow
- Timbales – Nicky Marrero
- Trombone – Barry Rogers, Lewis Kahn, Willie Colón
- Trumpet – Luis "Perico" Ortiz, Ray Maldonado, Victor Paz
These albums were a real turning point in the history of salsa, the band brings together the biggest names of the Fania label with mythical figures like Ray Barretto, Celia Cruz, Willie Colon, etc. In 2004, it was the first record of Latin music to rank among the 50 most important albums of the 20th century (Source: The Library Of Congress). Fania Records was a New York-based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. The label took its name from an old Cuban song by the singer Reinaldo Bolaño. Fania is known for its promotion of what has become known as Salsa music. These albums are presented here together for the first time on red vinyl. Cut all analog from the original tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.
In the '70s, Fania Records was often called "the Motown of salsa," and in fact, Fania was every bit as important to salsa as Motown was to soul. Fania's '70s roster boasted some of the decade's biggest names in Afro-Cuban music; so when Fania assembled a band called the Fania All-Stars, you knew that some major-league salseros would be on board. The list of musicians and singers on this live LP, which came out in 1975 and was recorded at Yankee Stadium in New York and Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, reads like a who's who of '70s salsa -- Ray Barretto, Larry Harlow, Willie Colon, Johnny Pacheco, and Bobby Valentin are among the musicians, and the featured vocalists include Santos Colonon "Soy Guajiro," Ismael Miranda on "Que Rica Suena Mi Tambor," and Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez on "Pueblo Latino." Meanwhile, Hector Lavoe has some joyful moments on his mega-hit "Mi Gente," and Celia Cruz is in fine form on "Diosa del Ritmo." Live at Yankee Stadium, Vol. 1 documents some historic moments in Afro-Cuban music and is highly recommended to salseros.
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