Willie Colón

Musicologia de Willie Colón — 7 tracks in the collection

media critiquebeauty vs. talentLatin television culturesocial satirecelebrity and spectaclegender and objectificationsalsa as social commentaryUrban noir storytelling

By the time Willie Colón recorded "Talento De Televisión," he had already spent decades as one of salsa's most restless innovators — a Bronx-born trombonist and bandleader who had redefined the genre's boundaries again and again, from the raw street sound of his late-1960s recordings with Héctor Lav…

Tracks

Mis Favoritas
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Talento De Televisión

Mis Favoritas

Willie Colón's sly salsa satire strips bare the spectacle of television's beauty machine.

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Experience
Siembra
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Pedro Navaja

Siembra

A seven-minute salsa noir where the streets of New York become a Brechtian stage.

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Experience
Legal Alien - Top Secrets
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El Gran Varon

Legal Alien - Top Secrets

A salsa masterpiece that dared to speak the unspeakable — and changed Latin music forever.

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Experience
Mis Favoritas
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Idilio

Mis Favoritas

A salsa romantic's desperate prayer against time, wrapped in golden brass and ache.

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Experience
Greatest Hits
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La Murga

Greatest Hits

A Bronx-born carnival anthem that turned the streets into a brass-fueled fiesta.

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Greatest Hits
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Oh Qué Será?

Greatest Hits

A salsa philosopher's hymn to the unknowable force that moves through all of us.

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Experience
Lo Mato
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El Día De Mi Suerte

Lo Mato

A salsa anthem of stubborn hope forged in the fires of barrio heartbreak.

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Experience