senorservo wrote:

Yuca: I toiled for seven years as an arts and culture journalist and worked three years for Fania ( I now work for the Uncle Sam as a Research-Writer), I was the content editor for the Fania website, wrote liner notes, news releases, newsletters and translated a ton of stuff...  the company has been bought over and over several times... in 2006, V2 music in the UK owned it for a few years  (that's when I was working with them). A lot of CDs were reissued in the US back then...there was a great British team behind the remastered reissues, we did some compilation work with London DJ Giles Peterson...   

In the States Fania is mostly popular in NYC, Puerto Rico and amongst the music cognoscenti... Most of the stuff was out of print till 2006, In Europe reissues kept rolling through the Vampi Soul label... Like Stax, the Fania is more **widely** appreciated in Europe, interestingly the US people of Mexican origin do not like Fania at all... they are into mariachi mex-tex music... Strange, isn't?

Cool you like Barreto, Colon and Pacheco...

My top Fania :
Barreto Indestructible
Barreto: Acid
Colon: El Malo
Larry Harlow: Harlow
Barreto Power
Barreto Together (all his sixties albums are great)
any of the Boogaloo compilations

IVL: for Fania All-Stars try "Night At The Cheetah". That's a quintessential album, Barreto Acid and Together will not disappoint, any of the Boogaloo compilations are worth your time/ Very sixties, yet very unique and new...         
and I do love-and bet you do to- the Watermelon Man, Mongo Santamaria

^ This man is Class!... With a capital "C"

It's a tad freaky you mention Watermelon Man. Have you had access to my webcam? (wink)

I've was listening to the Baba Brooks version of it earlier (no joke)

Your Fania pointers have been duly noted. The sun shines high and bright where I am, and like Tomiskinky posted esrlier. It's all proper sunshine music.

IvyLeagueOfGentlemen wrote:

Watermelon Man. Have you had access to my webcam? (wink)

I've was listening to the Baba Brooks version of it earlier

So many good versions of that tune.  The Head Hunters has got to be the ultimate though - far out man!

senorservo wrote:

Back to Ivy: Yes Jim, I do love how this group embraces all aspects of Ivy, sadly *some* here in the US make it into a some kind of "class" thing... This remains a huge turn-off and makes no-sense for folks like me, thankfully this forum and "like-minded associates"  like the Ivy Look book , the Hollywood Ivy book , College No 9 blog and the Weejun are puting things in the right framework...

The way Hollywood and Black America did Ivy had a huge tremendous influence on me when I was growing up...

The UK and European Ivy practitioners do not in general come to the style through emulation of elite colleges, but exposure to films and jazz. This is a critical difference and why the elite pretensions and affectation of the Trads/PITA, etc in the US really grates. We may wear the same gear, but the intentions and associations are diametrically and irrefutably worlds apart.

4F Hepcat wrote:

senorservo wrote:

Back to Ivy: Yes Jim, I do love how this group embraces all aspects of Ivy, sadly *some* here in the US make it into a some kind of "class" thing... This remains a huge turn-off and makes no-sense for folks like me, thankfully this forum and "like-minded associates"  like the Ivy Look book , the Hollywood Ivy book , College No 9 blog and the Weejun are puting things in the right framework...

The way Hollywood and Black America did Ivy had a huge tremendous influence on me when I was growing up...

The UK and European Ivy practitioners do not in general come to the style through emulation of elite colleges, but exposure to films and jazz. This is a critical difference and why the elite pretensions and affectation of the Trads/PITA, etc in the US really grates. We may wear the same gear, but the intentions and associations are diametrically and irrefutably worlds apart.

And 99% of the Trad/PITA guys aren't from 'Elite' backgrounds anyway...

They call us fakes for just purely liking the style?  I call them fakes for their social class pretensions and Official Preppy Handbook fantasies..


Fair's fair !   

Aye, he was a good 'un.

I think Senor is back over on the MC forum now it has started up again

Take your Vitamin D tablets, they were on about putting it in the water supply this morning.

As for Fania, I'm still trying to find my copy of the one with the skyscrapers and flowers on the front cover.

Last edited by THAW !!!! (2013-05-07 13:12:07)

I'm out of my depth!

THAW !!!! wrote:

Take your Vitamin D tablets, they were on about putting it in the water supply this morning.

As for Fania, I'm still trying to find my copy of the one with the skyscrapers and flowers on the front cover.

http://991.com/newGallery/Fania-All-Sta … 452096.jpg

What format(s) are you interested in?

Yuca wrote:

THAW !!!! wrote:

Take your Vitamin D tablets, they were on about putting it in the water supply this morning.

As for Fania, I'm still trying to find my copy of the one with the skyscrapers and flowers on the front cover.

http://991.com/newGallery/Fania-All-Sta … 452096.jpg

What format(s) are you interested in?

Well I've got it on vinyl somewhere, I remember side B being very good, with a couple of crowd pleasers.

THAW !!!! wrote:

Yuca wrote:

THAW !!!! wrote:

Take your Vitamin D tablets, they were on about putting it in the water supply this morning.

As for Fania, I'm still trying to find my copy of the one with the skyscrapers and flowers on the front cover.

http://991.com/newGallery/Fania-All-Sta … 452096.jpg

What format(s) are you interested in?

Well I've got it on vinyl somewhere, I remember side B being very good, with a couple of crowd pleasers.

Got you - I misread it as you were trying to find a copy.  Instead you're trying to find your copy.

Yuca wrote:

I recently read a book about Tito Puente.  Apparently, he and his contemporaries despised salsa, and considered it an inferior version of mambo.  TP always referred to the FAS as 'the funny all stars'.  After listening to a lot of mambo (particularly the big 3: TP, Machito and Tito Rodriguez) I understand there is some truth to their pov.  At the same time, there is salsa that bears comparison to the mambo greats.

Btw, another amazing salsa band from back in the day, with a strong jazz element, is La Sonora Poncena - highly recommended.

I guess you need a good ear for the Latin sounds?

Salsa, mambo, it all sounds Latin to me.

The difference between Ska, and Reggae I guess?