Word: salsas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others say the strategy is working. Sandi Dubowski '92 has no difficulty reeling off a list of once derogatory terms used to describe some gays and lesbians, from "salsa sisters" to the "S&M community." He says that he can't think of any word that would insult...
...High School of Music and Art, where banjo was not considered a serious instrument. So he studied privately, first with Erik Darling, onetime member of the Weavers folk quartet, and eventually with Trischka, an urban bluegrass whiz. Even then, Fleck was an eclectic, trying to absorb everything from salsa to jazz. Especially jazz. "I bought a Charlie Parker record, and I thought, "Wow! This is incredible." I tried to learn Parker's licks on the banjo, but I couldn't find the notes." One day, in a high school jazz-appreciation class, the teacher played pianist Chick Corea's Spain...
...then there's the sprightly Gloria Estefan, 32, who boogies with a Latin lilt and a dash of salsa, temporarily out of commission with a bad back after a nasty bus crash. (She's on the mend at home in Miami, thanks, doing fine and due back on stage in three to six months.) "I don't feel Cuban or American," the Cuban-born singer reflected before her accident. "I guess I feel Latin Miami." That neatly encapsulates the music she makes too: sunny, open...
Happy Land was living up to its name on Sunday last week. Well after 3 a.m., strobe lights were pulsing through the cigarette haze to bounce off young women twisting in slinky miniskirts and high heels. Youthful men in leather pants and bright shirts picked up the beat of salsa, reggae and Honduran calypso...
...wasn't long before Blades joined the roster of young Latin musicians at Fania records, the leading salsa label. In 1978 he and trombonist Willie Colon recorded the album Siembra (Seed), which went on to become one of the best- selling salsa albums of all time. Meanwhile Blades had begun to tinker with the salsa formula, replacing the horns with synthesizers and augmenting the basic Afro-Cuban beat with strains of jazz, '50s doo-wop and rock...