Salsa Meets Jazz Presents TROMBOR I Remembering Hector Lavoe & Willie Colon @ Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood I Thursday, August 31, 2023 (doors open at 7pm)
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About Salsa Meets Jazz: A unique music series which took place at the Village Gate in New York during the 1980s. Created by music producer and promoter Jack Hooke and the owner of the Village Gate Art D'Lugoff. Now Los Angeles has its own version of Salsa Meets Jazz at the famous Catalina Jazz Club, remembering one of the greatest times in Jazz, Latin Jazz and Salsa.
About Trombor: Created for the delight and listening pleasure of music and dance fans, and with the vision of continuing and preserving the sound that identified New York’s Latin neighborhoods during the birth of the genre affectionately known as Salsa. The sounds of TROMBOR enriches the Salsa music scene in Los Angeles with the sound created by Eddie Palmieri and then continued by Willie Colón and Hector Lavoe as well as Manny Oquendo and Conjunto Libre.
About Hector Lavoe & Willie Colon: Hector Lavoe and Willie Colon were very instrumental in Salsa's success during the late '60s and throughout the '70s and '80s. Under the banner of Fania Records, this duo pushed the boundaries of traditional Salsa, and, in turn, became worldwide superstars, touring Central and South America, Europe and cities all across the Eastern Hemisphere,
About Catalina Jazz Club: Housed in Hollywood and decked out in a timeless charm, the club offers a cozy ambience under sparkling stage lights garnished with its signature concoction, Jazz. Over the past 36 years, the Catalina Jazz Club has hosted the most illustrious legends of all time from Dizzy Gillespie and McCoy Tyner, to Joshua Redman, Kenny Burrell, and Steve Tyrell, among others.