Nu Yorican Roots

Limited 10th anniversary edition of Soul Jazz Records' classic journey into New York's Latin music scene of the 1960s including free limited-edition postcards, poster and extensive booklet. Nu Yorica Roots! is a definitive study of the Latin music scene in New York during the 1960s.This album features non-stop Bugalu and Latin classics from Tito Puente, Ray Barretto,Joe Cuba and others alongside the original deep Afro-Cuban sounds of Machito, Mongo Santamaria and Arsenio Rodriguez and the pioneering avant-garde radicalism of Eddie Palmieri and others. Nu Yorica Roots! presents a fascinating documentation of how Latin musicians in East Harlem blended elements of their Cuban and Puerto Rican musical roots with African-American Jazz, Funk and Soul to creating wild, exuberant new musical hybrids that rocked El Barrio.