Fania
Fania Records is a founded Recording company in 1964 by Johnny Pacheco (once its finished contract with the Alegre recording company) and Jerry Masucci (the lawyer of sound Divorce).
The name " Fania" comes from a Són montuno composed by Reinaldo Bolaños, and which belonged to the album.
In 2005, the catalog was repurchased by V2 Music which created a Web site FaniaRecords.com.
Fania All Stars
The Fania All Stars is an orchestra bringing together the best musicians and singers of the recording company Fania Records.In 1968, Jerry Masucci fished with Acapulco when the promoters Jack Hooke and Ralph Mercado (which Co-directed the Cheetah club of Manhattan and future president of the recording company RMM = Ralph Mercado Management/Ritmo Musical Mundo) him Telephone NT with the idea to put in scene all them stars of Fania, FANIA ALL STARS, as well as " guests stars" (Tito Puente of Tico Records, Eddie Palmieri and Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz of Alegre Records) for a concert promotional event in Red Garter of Greenwich Village; the concert makes full house; The descarga Live At The Red Garter was badly sold at the time.
Masucci decides Film er next the Concert. The August 26th 1971, Jerry Masucci and Ralph Mercado organize this concert in Cheetah. The public is 2 times more (more than 5000 people). The album Live At Cheetah flights 1 and 2 will be the album of Latin music more to date sold.
Latin Our Thing (Nuestra Cosa Latina) (1972) by-product by Jerry Masucci and Larry Harlow under the direction of Leon Gast…
After concerts making full house with Puerto Rico, Chicago and with the Panama, Fania All Stars made their first appearance with the Yankee Stadium (capacity of 60000 places) of New York the August 24th 1973, with the principal high-speed motorboats of Fania: Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, Larry Harlow, Johnny Pacheco, Roberto Roena, Bobby Valentín and other musicians invited to make the ox (descarga): Manu Dibango, Mongo Santamaria and Jorge Santana (the youngest brother of Carlos Santana). On one of the faces of the album Latin-Drunk person-Rock'n'roll (1974), one finds recordings in this concert and a concert part in Roberto Clemente Coliseum with San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In 1974, Fania All Stars gives a concert at the Stage of Kinshasa (Zaire) (80 000 places), filmed under the title Live in Africa (published in England under the title Salsa Madness in 1991), at the time of a festival of music in which also Stevie Wonder took part and others, jointly organized with the weight-heavy boxing match Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) and George Foreman.
Fania All Stars turn over to the Yankee Stadium in 1975 (double album Live At Yankee Stadium 1975 ), with the song Celia Cruz, Hector Lavoe, Cheo Feliciano, Ismael Miranda, Justo Betancourt, Ismael Quintana, Pete " El Conde" Rodriguez, Bobby Cruz and Santos Colón. In order to widen its market, Fania joined Columbia Records in the United States for a series of albums. The first project Delicate & Jumpy (1976) were a collaboration with Steve Winwood with Fania All Stars reduced to a consistuée rhythm section of Johnny Pacheco, Bobby Valentín, Ray Barretto, Roberto Roena, Nicky Marrero and Papo Lucca, left on to Columbia Records in the United States and Island in the United Kingdom. Island Records distributed to the United Kingdom the Salsa collection! And Live.
In 1976, Fania All Stars gave a single memorable concert to Lyceum Ballroom of London (full house), with the participation of Steve Winwood.
On the album Tribute To Tito Rodriguez figure for the first time the singer Rubén Blades.
On the album Rhythm Machine , (Columbia Records) one finds the player of keyboard Bob James (executive producer) and guitarist Eric Gale; and Spanish Fever (1978), with guests Maynard Ferguson, Hubert Laws, David Sanborn, Eric Scale and others.
In September 1978, they give a concert to the Madison Square Garden. The last album with Columbia Records, Havana Jam is a historical concert recorded the March 3rd 1979 with Havana, Cuba, with the participation of Billy Joel, Rita Coolidge, Kris Kristofferson, Stephen Stills and Weather Report, as well as the groups Cuba ins Irakere and Orquesta Aragón.
In the years 1980, Fania declines because of a film which will not have any success, of the royalty problems of unpaid, the failure of the catapult-launching of the salsa in the US market with Columbia Records and Atlantic, and the arrival of the modes of the Dominican Merengue during first half of the decade then that of the romantic Salsa of Puerto Rico at the end of the years 1980 and to the beginning of the year 1990.
They leave two albums Latin jazz: California Jam and Guasasa ; then Social Exchange (1981) intended for the US market with Steel Pulse and Gato Barbieri, Bamboleo (1988) with four versions salsa of the Gipsy Kings, Commitment , Latin Connection , Lo That Pide Gente and Viva the Charanga .
In 1994, the group celebrated the 30 years of Fania Records by 3 concerts with San Juan, Miami, and New York
Discography
Albums Studio
- 2000 Goldens delicious Drops
- 1997 Cheer 97 (Reprise again S of Los Van Van)
- 1989 Guasasa
- 1988 Latin Jazz Fusion
- 1988 Bamboleo (Reprise again S of the Gipsy Kings)
- 1986 Viva the Charanga
- 1984 Lo That Pide Gente
- 1981 Social Exchange
- 1981 Latin Connection
- 1980 Commitment
- 1980 California Jam
- 1979 Cross-country races Over
- 1978 Spanish Fever
- 1977 Rhythm Machine
- 1976 has Tribute to Tito Rodriguez
- 1976 Delicate and Jumpy
- 1975 Fania AlStars
Live albums
- 2000 In Concierto In Cali Colombia
- 1986 Fania AlStars in Japan
- 1986 Live in Africa
- 1979 Habana Jam
- 1975 Live At Stadium Yankee, Flights. 1-2
- 1974 Latin-Drunk person-Rock'n'roll
- 1973 Live At the Cheetah, vol. 2
- 1971 Live At the Cheetah, vol. 1
- 1968 Live At the Red Garter, vol. 1-2
Videos
Live in Africa
List titles:- Kymbala (Celia Cruz)
- Guantanamera (Celia Cruz)
- Orbited
- El Raton of It (Cheo Feliciano, Jorge Santana)
- Mi Gente (Hector Lavoe)
- Guantanamera
- Ponte Duro
- Fania Theme
Musicians: Johnny Pacheco (direction and flute), Celia Cruz (song), Ray Barretto (congas), Santos Colonist (song), Cheo Feliciano (song), Larry Harlow (piano), Pupi Lagarretta (violin), Hector Lavoe (song), Nicky Marrero (drinking cups), Ismael Miranda (song), Ismael Quintana (song), Roberto Roena (bongo), Jorge Santana (brother of Carlos Santana) (electric guitar), Yomo Toro (cuatro), Bobby Valentine (low electric)
Salsa
List titles:- Congo Bongo
- Leah (Mongo Santamaría)
- Julia (El Gran Combo)
- Bemba Coloured (Celia Cruz)
- El Raton (Cheo Feliciano)
- Soul Makossa (Manu Dibango)
- Congo Bongo
- Mi debilidad (Ismael Miranda)
- Mi Gente (Hector Lavoe)
- Congo Bongo
Musicians: Johnny Pacheco (direction and flute), Santos Colonist (song), Cheo Feliciano (song), Pete " El Conde" Rodriguez (song), Hector Lavoe (song), Ismael Miranda (song), Adalberto Santiago (song), Ricardo Ray (song), Bobby Cruz (song), Larry Harlow (piano), Ray Barretto (congas), Nicky Marrero (drinking cups), Roberto Roena (bongo), Bobby Valentine (low electric), Yomo Toro (Cuatro), Willie Colonist (trombone), Lewis Hahn (trombone), Roberto Rodriguez (trumpet), Barry Rogers (trombone), Victor Paz (trumpet), Ray Maldonado (trumpet)
Latin Our Thing (Nuestra Cosa)
Concert given to the Cheetah Club , the August 26th 1971. Duration: 1:23List titles:
- Quitate You
- Anacaona
- Big shot Duro
- Abran Paso
- Lament of a guajiro
- Tamarindo
- Descarga Fania
- Estrellas de Fania
External bonds
- FaniaRecords.com: Official site of the label ''' Fania Records '''
- the Page of the '' Fania All Stars '' on FaniaRecords.com
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