Backed by the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra led by Bobby Sanabria, this work revives one of the most transcendent moments in Harlow's work and salsa in general. Rubén Blades and Adonis Puentes will also perform as special guests. The chosen location for the event is the Damrosch Park Bandshell, the outdoor public space belonging to the Lincoln Center in New York. It will be held on 14 August, and as such it will share the limelight with the 10th La Casita: A Home For The Heart, a traditional Latin American poetry and music event whose concert will be free. Harlow's concert will also be free. Reviving La Raza Latina is one of Larry Harlow's (New York, 1939) big dreams, whose extensive career in salsa and jazz includes the urban-Afro opera Hommy, Fania All Stars's golden era and the introduction of Latin music categories to the Grammys. La Raza Latina, an album released by Fania Records in 1977 and recorded in the same year by a 30-piece orchestra, was sung by Néstor Sánchez and Rubén Blades. The Cuban new son singer Adonis Puentes will sing the main track which made the magnificent son singer Sánchez famous, who died in 2003. Blades will be the star of the concert and we hope he sings the big song from the album, which consists of five symphonic salsa movements describing the history of Afro-Caribbean music. What we don't know about is who will take the places of the original narrator, Frankie Rodríguez, or the female choir from the 70s, Latin Fever. The big band directed by Bobby Sanabria, who teaches at the Manhattan School of Music, consists of 35 musicians. Sanabria, the ensemble director of this prestigious school, is also the drummer for Larry Harlow & The Latin Legends, one of the groups that keeps the spirit of old salsa from the 70s alive. Gladyspalmera.com's programme La Hora Faniática will replay La Raza Latina on a special show on 21 May.
