Larry Harlow, the Brooklyn-born, classically trained pianist who helped popularize salsa music as one of the stars of the pioneering Fania Records label, is dead at 82. The bandleader from Brooklyn ...

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As house producer and arranger of some 300 albums during Fania Records’ golden age, Harlow was “El Judío Maravilloso”—the marvelous Jew—of modern salsa. The former acid rocker also composed Hommy the ...

There was a time when Fania Records was the most transcendent label in Latin music — hailed as the Motown of salsa. From its meteoric rise in late ’60s New York to its triumphant empire of sound ...