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Meet Marlow Rosado, One of Salsa’s Underground Heroes

January 23, 2023 by marlowrosado2022_admin
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During the pandemic’s darkest days, when clubs were shuttered and his performances were canceled, Marlow Rosado retreated to his Miami Lakes recording studio. He had traditional salsa, a lifelong passion, and Zen, a longtime interest, on his mind.

Rosado, 52, a Grammy and Latin Grammy winner, has emerged with two new recordings and a sense of peace. The albums, he says, represent a new phase in his musical career and a cause for celebration.

Los Colores de la Salsa (The Colors of Salsa) is a modern take on traditional Latin dance rhythms that he recorded with his longtime friend, veteran vocalist Frankie Negron. The official video for the track, “Depende de Ti (It Depends on You)” has garnered more than one million views on YouTube since the album was released in early March.

Orun is a deeper, almost meditative recording and Rosado’s first Latin jazz album. (He interprets the Yoruba word as meaning a protective ancestral spirit.) The album also marks the first time the Puerto Rican musician has worked with Afro-Cuban jazz legend Chucho Valdés. The veteran musician is a guest artist on the track, “Marlow y Chucho,” which Rosado wrote.

“I was able to produce two amazing albums,” Rosado says. “They are very special because they came from a place of despair — of what’s going to happen, I’ve got nothing to do, no work, nowhere to go — to a place of hope for the future.”

Rosado is no stranger to beating the odds. His music isn’t played on Latin commercial radio even though he has won two of the music industry’s biggest awards: a 2012 “Best Tropical Latin Album” Grammy for Retro, which he recorded with his band, Marlow Rosado y La Riqueña, and a 2015 “Best Children’s Album” Latin Grammy for Los Animales.

He is one of salsa’s underground heroes.

“The overwhelming programming [on commercial Latin radio] is urban music,” says Rosado, a pianist, arranger, songwriter, and bandleader. “There are thousands of ‘salseros’ with records out there, but there’s no salsa on the radio.”

Zen has helped him deal with the ups and downs of the music industry, he says.

Rosado was first attracted to Eastern philosophies as a teenager when he picked up a copy of The Pocket Zen Reader. After visiting Nepal in 2007 to perform at a jazz festival, he was hooked. When the festival ended, Rosado spent seven days in the capital of Kathmandu, visiting a Buddhist temple.

He has returned to the Himalayan country twice: “Nepal was a life-changing experience.”

It’s among the poorest countries in the world, he says, “yet we have so much to learn from them.”

What Rosado learned was to try to see opportunities in life’s challenges, he says. His two new albums reflect this mindset.

Colores has Rosado’s trademark “salsa gruesa” (heavy) style — blaring horns, rapid-fire percussion, and lyrical piano solos — with shades of urban music. He recorded the album with Negron, a salsa and Latin pop singer of Puerto Rican heritage from New Jersey, who became popular in the late ’90s with hits such as “Con Amor Se Gana (You Win With Love).”

Rosado says he and Negron, who moved to South Florida a few years ago, went into the studio together, not knowing what to expect.

“It was a fun record to do because there was nothing else to do, we were in quarantine. So, we had a good time doing this,” Rosado recalls. “It’s probably the only record I’ve done that way. We were thinking, ‘If things ever get back to normal, we’re going to release this album,’ and we did.”

Rosado wrote most of the songs on the record, including the call-and-response “Depende de Ti.”

“It calls on younger Latin urban artists to ‘defend’ tropical Latin rhythms that first arrived in the Caribbean on slave ships,” he says. “We’re asking the younger musicians who are hot right now to respect this music, not to dismiss it as old people’s music.

“The original rappers were the ‘soneros’ (salsa vocalists), the rhymers — we invented that.”

 

The more melodic Orun with Valdés is a departure from Rosado’s “heavy metal” style of salsa.

In a recent video for the album, filmed at his Coral Springs home, Valdés had words of encouragement for Rosado.

“He has a great talent and a high level of composition and a tremendous swing on the piano — an incredible vibe,” says Valdés, smoking a cigar on his patio. “All I can say to Marlow is what [jazz composer] David Brubeck once said to me: ‘Marlow, never stop.’”

Valdés is one of Rosado’s idols.

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Source: Deborah Ramirez, ArtburstMiami.com

 

Larry Harlow

Larry Harlow, ‘El Judío Maravilloso,’ Dies at 82

August 20, 2021 by marlowrosado2022_admin
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Larry Harlow, the legendary pianist and bandleader who helped shape the sound of salsa in the 1960s and 1970s in New York, died Friday (Aug. 20) of complications from kidney disease, according to his son Myles Harlow Kahn. The artist, who was one of the first signed to Fania Records, was 82 years old.

“It is with deep sadness that we regret sharing the passing of Larry Harlow, producer, arranger, pianist extraordinaire, and Fania All Star member,” Fania Records shared in a Facebook post. “Harlow, also known as El Judio Maravilloso, made a name for himself with his dexterity on the piano, organ, flute, and bass. He went off to record more than 106 albums by various artists, and 50 of his own under the Fania label and other subsidiary labels.”

One of his last collaborations was with Marlow Rosado, the first artist signed by Fania in over 18 years, making him part of a historic family which includes Celia Cruz, Hector Lavoe, Willie Colon and others.

 

Harlow Marlo Photo Collage

Source: Billboard
By: Leila Cobo

Salsa Legend Marlow Rosado Transports Bailey Hall to Another World

August 20, 2021 by marlowrosado2022_admin
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Salsa legend Marlow Rosado lit up Bailey Hall this Friday with his band, La Riqueña. Rosado is a native Puerto Rican who began his music career by studying Jazz education in Florida. He is now a producer, composer, skilled pianist and tireless vocalist. He dabbles in multiple musical genres, incorporating elements of salsa, merengue, bachata and reggaetón into his compositions. Speaking to his mastery of music, his album Retro won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Tropical Latin Album against competing nominations from star bachatero Romeo Santos.

Marlow Rosado and La Riqueña brought the nightclub vibes to Bailey Hall. The band, consisting of Mike Rivera strumming the bass, Pablo Molina on the congas and Gamalier Reyes playing the timbales performed high-energy rhythms that brought the audience to their feet. Reyes’ rapid-fire drumming was jaw-dropping to watch. Meanwhile, Marlow Rosado’s passionately played Afro-Cuban montuno and tumbao patterns on the piano, intermittently interrupted by strong glissandos, where he would slide his fingers rapidly across the entire keyboard. He carried the air of Elton John, unable to keep from rocking out to the rhythm while attacking the keys.

The band played upbeat pieces, including “Quiero Que Me Quieras” from their 2014 album Salsanimal, alternated with a few slower, romantic ballads that paid homage to their homeland Puerto Rico.

As a surprise to the audience, Rosado invited an old buddy to the stage — coincidentally a Cornell alum who had studied organically chemistry. Rosado exclaimed, “It doesn’t matter how much organic chemistry you do, the music is in your blood!” The two used to perform together, and it was heart-warming to watch them reunite and sing duets. They sang a beautiful rendition of the song “El Cuarto de Tula,” originally by the Buena Vista Social Club, an ensemble of Cuban musicians established in 1996 to promote the music of pre-revolutionary Cuba.

The most astounding moment of the night was when Rosado invited audience members to the stage for the concert’s grande finale. He asked two Cornell music students, a pianist and violinist, to improvise a song with the band and encouraged the audience to join in by dancing or clapping. The Cornell students successfully composed an impromptu song with the band, and the audience thoroughly enjoyed the show.

Like the Buena Vista Social Club, Marlow Rosado’s music also strives to revive salsa’s roots with old-fashioned, traditional instruments and vocal styles. His music transports the listener to another time, another place. He makes me wonder about the future of the salsa genre. Will there be enough singers to keep the genre going?

Source: The Cornell Daily Sun
By Ariadna Lubinus

Marlow Rosado and Chucho Valdes release the album “Orun”

June 13, 2021 by marlowrosado2022_admin
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Marlow Rosado and Dionisio Jesús “Chucho” Valdés Rodríguez live the experience of working together thanks to the album “Orun”, which has nine songs
“Orun is the record that I have wanted to make all my life. It is a truly music album in which the concentration is not commercialism but the musical depth within the arrangements so that the musician stands out with his solos; the most important thing is the expression and wisdom of each participant on their instrument” expressed the composer Marlow Rosado.

As a musician, for the also Puerto Rican writer, working with Dionisio Jesús “Chucho” Valdés Rodríguez has represented an honor and learning.

“Throughout my career I have had the joy of working with many great pianists who have been teachers to me throughout my training such as Richie Ray, Papo Luca, and who has become my piano father – the wonderful Jew – Larry Harlow. But in this case I had the great opportunity, honor and joy of working with the pianist who for me sits on the top of the mountain when we talk about Latin piano, especially in Latin Jazz,” said Rosado.

“I never imagined that my career would have the fortune to record with such an iconic figure of our music. Having recorded my own arrangement, a song written by me with Chucho Valdés, for me is one of those moments before and after. I can happily disappear with this project,” added the composer.

Distributed by JN Music Group Jazz, the new division of JN Music Group, Orun already has a video clip for the song Marlow y Chucho, which was recorded at the house of maestro Chucho Valdés.

This song becomes the first track that comes off this album.

Source: Diario Las Americas
By: Redaccion

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