5. The Fania All Stars, “Live at Yankee Stadium, Vols. 1 and 2” (1975). This concert captured the salsa explosion at its volcanic peak. Forget that it really didn’t happen at Yankee Stadium.

There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent ... A lot of it is not even music, like laughter breaking out or [salsa star] Héctor Lavoe asking someone to shut the door.

In 1973, Mr. Pacheco and Masucci rented Yankee Stadium for a salsa concert of the Fania All Stars, rejecting advice that they also book rock or soul acts to fill the stands. The performance ...

Johnny Pacheco, the Dominican Republic-born flautist-turned-bandleader and the co-founder of the influential Fania Records, the label that brought salsa to ... the Fania All-Stars, and was awarded ...

“Salsa is Cuban music played with a New YorkPuerto ... and he arranged a supergroup of the best Latin bandleaders and singers, the Fania All-Stars. An under-the-radar 1968 debut at the jazzy ...

"But the thing is, like, the idea came because we had Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans in the Fania All-Stars; two Jews and an Englishman. And when you make a salsa, you have different condiments.

Salsa was created when The Fania All Stars band added a dynamic New York flavour to the rhythms of Cuba and Puerto Rico. "It offered a music we could live by, breathe and make love to: it was the ...

Salsa started as a Caribbean phenomenon, but it spread all over the world like wildfire ... The new sound found an ideal home ...

Salsa started as a Caribbean phenomenon, but it spread all over the world like wildfire, and its devilish rhythm and sinuous melodies are now universal. At its best, salsa can rock as hard as rock.