Quote: "Salsa is a popified verion of "el son", it's Cuban-based music for top 40 radio." ABSOLUTELY FALSE.
Wonder what Eddie Palmieri would think of your 'truth'...
Anyone who wants to find out the truth can buy Larry Harlows's CD (La Raza Latina, Fania label). It is a musical cronology of the evolution of Salsa from ancestral Africa to NYC. Harlow is a Jewish piano man from NYC who decided to have his own salsa orchestra--one of the best.
I wrote a paper about tracing this musical evolution in a college musicology class...the Cuban SON has no jazz elements--salsa does. Some call the son 'pure', I call it a classical form. These NYC raised P/Ricans and Cubans *did* get conservatory training in the Jazz forms--and that's what slingshotted the music into another realm. Salsa developed as a cultural phenomenom resulting from Hispanics migrating to NYC and playing--not as a media industry conspiracy.
BTW, that's why today we have Latin Jazz...Gato Barbieri and Eumir Deodato couldn't have done it by themselves.
Wonder what Eddie Palmieri would think of your 'truth'...
Anyone who wants to find out the truth can buy Larry Harlows's CD (La Raza Latina, Fania label). It is a musical cronology of the evolution of Salsa from ancestral Africa to NYC. Harlow is a Jewish piano man from NYC who decided to have his own salsa orchestra--one of the best.
I wrote a paper about tracing this musical evolution in a college musicology class...the Cuban SON has no jazz elements--salsa does. Some call the son 'pure', I call it a classical form. These NYC raised P/Ricans and Cubans *did* get conservatory training in the Jazz forms--and that's what slingshotted the music into another realm. Salsa developed as a cultural phenomenom resulting from Hispanics migrating to NYC and playing--not as a media industry conspiracy.
BTW, that's why today we have Latin Jazz...Gato Barbieri and Eumir Deodato couldn't have done it by themselves.