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Tito Puente (born Ernest Anthony Puente Jr., 20 April 1923 - 1 June 2000)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lola Albright, drummer Tony Allen, the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, the Billboard Singles Charts (1940), music aficionado & influencer John Bonato, Tantoo Cardinal, Kim Carnes, Paul Cook, Chris Cornell, Omar Epps, Franz Fanon, Tim Ferriss, Jem Finer, Radney Foster, Mort Garson, Stone Gossard, Saginaw Grant, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sally Ann Howes, Iron Butterfly’s 1968 IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA album, Buddy Knox, John Lodge, Mick MacNeil (Simple Minds), Cormac McCarthy, Gregor Mendel, Sandra Oh, Petrarch, Diana Rigg, T.G. Sheppard, the 1961 musical STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF, songwriter Cindy Walker, Natalie Wood, Dennis Yost, and the visionary guitarist and band-leader Carlos Santana. His music has been in my orbit ever since I saw Santana’s sizzling performance in the WOODSTOCK movie. I marvel at his fusion of Latin and world music, jazz, psychedelic rock, and pop, and he’s King of the Long-Sustained Note, milking the full potential of a tone. I didn’t grasp the depth of his music till recent years, amplified because I now live in the San Francisco neighborhood where Santana grew up and I worked with musicians who’ve played with Santana.

In 2009 I was honored to participate in a Santana tribute concert produced by The Uptown Music Collective, performing Santana’s arrangement of “Oye Como Va.” Because of the song’s American, Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican roots, it’s now a badge of interconnectedness and hybridity for Latin music in the USA and beyond. Here we are performing it at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport PA—with “more cowbell” and superb lead guitar by Scott Francis. Meanwhile, thank you Carlos for your years of music-making and bringing people together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCOM6W62v8

#Santana #CarlosSantana #TitoPuente #Cuba #Mexico #birthday #Latinmusic #worldmusic #jazzfusion #Latinpop #UptownMusicCollective #WilliamsportPA #DavidBrumbaugh #CommunityArtsCenter #oyecomova #chacha #mambo #chancullo #israelcachaolopez #cachao #morecowbell #cowbell #guitar #scottfrancis #xavier

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lola Albright, drummer Tony Allen, the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, the Billboard Singles Charts (1940), music aficionado & influencer John Bonato, Tantoo Cardinal, Kim Carnes, Paul Cook, Chris Cornell, Omar Epps, Franz Fanon, Tim Ferriss, Jem Finer, Radney Foster, Mort Garson, Stone Gossard, Saginaw Grant, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sally Ann Howes, Iron Butterfly’s 1968 IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA album, Buddy Knox, John Lodge, Mick MacNeil (Simple Minds), Cormac McCarthy, Gregor Mendel, Sandra Oh, Petrarch, Diana Rigg, T.G. Sheppard, the 1961 musical STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF, songwriter Cindy Walker, Natalie Wood, Dennis Yost, and the visionary guitarist and band-leader Carlos Santana. His music has been in my orbit ever since I saw Santana’s sizzling performance in the WOODSTOCK movie. I marvel at his fusion of Latin and world music, jazz, psychedelic rock, and pop, and he’s King of the Long-Sustained Note, milking the full potential of a tone. I didn’t grasp the depth of his music till recent years, amplified because I now live in the San Francisco neighborhood where Santana grew up and I worked with musicians who’ve played with Santana. 

In 2009 I was honored to participate in a Santana tribute concert produced by The Uptown Music Collective, performing Santana’s arrangement of “Oye Como Va.” Because of the song’s American, Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican roots, it’s now a badge of interconnectedness and hybridity for Latin music in the USA and beyond. Here we are performing it at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport PA—with “more cowbell” and superb lead guitar by Scott Francis. Meanwhile, thank you Carlos for your years of music-making and bringing people together.

#Santana #CarlosSantana #TitoPuente #Cuba #Mexico #birthday #Latinmusic #worldmusic #jazzfusion #Latinpop #UptownMusicCollective #WilliamsportPA #DavidBrumbaugh #CommunityArtsCenter #oyecomova #chacha #mambo #chancullo #israelcachaolopez #cachao #morecowbell #cowbell #guitar #scottfrancis #xavier

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lola Albright, drummer Tony Allen, Apollo 11, the Billboard Singles Charts (1940), music aficionado & influencer John Bonato, Tantoo Cardinal, Kim Carnes, Paul Cook, Chris Cornell, Omar Epps, Franz Fanon, Tim Ferriss, Jem Finer, Radney Foster, Mort Garson, Stone Gossard, Saginaw Grant, Sir Edmund Hillary, Sally Ann Howes, Iron Butterfly’s 1968 IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA album, Buddy Knox, John Lodge, Mick MacNeil (Simple Minds), Cormac McCarthy, Gregor Mendel, Sandra Oh, Petrarch, Diana Rigg, T.G. Sheppard, the 1961 musical STOP THE WORLD I WANT TO GET OFF, songwriter Cindy Walker, Natalie Wood, Dennis Yost, and the visionary guitarist and band-leader Carlos Santana. His music has been in my orbit ever since I saw Santana’s sizzling performance in the WOODSTOCK movie. I marvel at his fusion of Latin and world music, jazz, psychedelic rock, and pop, and he’s King of the Long-Sustained Note, milking the full potential of a tone. I didn’t grasp the depth of his music till recent years, amplified because I now live in the San Francisco neighborhood where Santana grew up and I worked with musicians who’ve played with Santana. 

In 2009 I was honored to participate in a Santana tribute concert produced by The Uptown Music Collective, performing Santana’s arrangement of “Oye Como Va.” Because of the song’s American, Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican roots, it’s now a badge of interconnectedness and hybridity for Latin music in the USA and beyond. Here we are performing it at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport PA—with “more cowbell” and superb lead guitar by Scott Francis. Meanwhile, thank you Carlos for your years of music-making and bringing people together.

#Santana #CarlosSantana #TitoPuente #Cuba #Mexico #birthday #Latinmusic #worldmusic #jazzfusion #Latinpop #UptownMusicCollective #WilliamsportPA #DavidBrumbaugh #CommunityArtsCenter #oyecomova #chacha #mambo #chancullo #israelcachaolopez #cachao #morecowbell #cowbell #guitar #scottfrancis #xavier

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SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “Oye Como Va”—The music and vision of Carlos Santana has always been in my orbit ever since I saw Santana’s sizzling performance in the WOODSTOCK movie. I marvel at his fusion of Latin and world music, jazz, psychedelic rock, and pop, but I didn’t grasp the depth of it till recent years. In 2009 I was honored to participate in a Santana tribute concert produced by The Uptown Music Collective. Based in Williamsport PA, UMC is a music education academy devote to uplifting young people (and some older ones) with music and community. Santana’s cover of “Oye Como Va” went Top 20 in 1971, but it was originally a 1962 cha-cha hit for the legendary composer-bandleader-percussionist Tito Puente. The repeating block chord ostinato pattern in the song was probably borrowed from “Chanchullo,” a 1957 mambo by Cuban bassist-composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez. Both songs are lyrically sourced from primal “street life,” but “Oye Como Va” has grown past that. Because of the song’s American, Cuban, Mexican, and Puerto Rican roots, it’s now a badge of interconnectedness and hybridity for Latin music in the USA and beyond. Here we are performing it at the Community Arts Center with “more cowbell” and superb lead guitar by Scott Francis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW2BIeZjPLQ

#Santana #CarlosSantana #TitoPuente #Cuba #Mexico #PuertoRico #Latinmusic #worldmusic #jazzfusion #Latinpop #UptownMusicCollective #WilliamsportPA #DavidBrumbaugh #CommunityArtsCenter #oyecomova #chacha #mambo #chancullo #israelcachaolopez #cachao #cowbell #guitar��#scottfrancis #xavier