CD Review: Grupo Caribe - Somos Caribenos
Tuesday April 8, 2008
Grupo Caribe has been together since 1996 but while their music is some of the best of the Caribbean, the artists themselves hail from New York - the birthplace of salsa. In the 1950s & 1960s, New York City's Palladium was where the best Latin artists played hot, hot versions of mambo, rumba, guaracha and cha cha to the delight of the dancers that crowded that venue every Saturday night.
Somos Caribenos revives those days with an album full of the Palladium-style music. While the arrangements have been updated for the contemporary ear, there's been no loss of the original, compelling style and rhythm that caused the world to fall in love with tropical rhythms.
Comments
The Palladium was New York’s home of mambo from 1949 until it closed in 1966. It was not the home of salsa in the 70s.
You’re absolutely right, of course. Sorry. That’s what happens when I try to think while on vacation. Thanks for the correction.