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Agúzate, you are ensuring is that I bring

A · Ricardo Ray · and to · Bobby Cruz · they know what is right. To be honest, something about how to fix and refine the trumpets of his orchestra provided me ha generado un poco de rechazo. Es como si sonaran a banda de pueblo antigua, o a mariachi, pero sin la contundencia en el fraseo de este género mexicano. Porque esa afinación no parece de trompeta de sonora: de hecho, junto con los coros suena como a Ray, pero  Ray Conniff gone latin.. . (¿será por eso mi rechazo?). Además, junto con el soberano piano de Ricardo -que estudió para concertista- y el vozarrón de Bobby, estos dos metales son el sello de la orquesta.
Como sea, no me he preocupado demasiado por coleccionar sus discos más allá de los que son clásicos, y no era plan mostrar a Ray y a Cruz hoy, aquí, con el lugarcomún Jala Jala y Boogaloo (1967), or 2 Volume (1968). Would have been too cliche.

Bobby and Richard, when they lived in New York

then I got online to read some reviews on his best productions, seeking inspiration, and almost all agreed in preferring The brutal sound of Ricardo Ray (1971) that although opens with a song which is essential for the expression salsa, as the album does not inspire me. Is very overrated and has some issues so corny arrangements I do not understand how Johnny Pacheco said at the time: or Yeme, Richie, this to me sounds like Ray Conniff ...
Around Throw in the rebirth of both as evangelicals in 1975 and recorded the absurdities that later in this wave called Christian sauce.

But do not think, please, that the types I dislike, because in fact I find some wonderful people, who were victims of Fame and its vices, like many, but got out of the case, as few They now live in peace and without losing its roots and public esteem.
In fact, they are particularly beloved in Colombia greet many of his songs to various Latin American cities with much affection.

Nothing. Suddenly I remembered the song Agúzate and I searched the disk where left (1970). I did not find, I have not. And I have not been here two days doing an intensive through Spotify to listen carefully. The production is good, it shows the hand of Miguel Estivill-he decided to end several songs with the old trick of fade out, even when they were still playing some solos, and the good ear of Fred Weinberg, one of the best engineers Sound of the City. It has its odd touches like Soul and Inspiration, You've Lost That Feeling Looving (Turkeys and jinx if ever there) and My Way, a song so poor that there is no way for someone to sing well.

But they are also Amparo Arrebato, inspired by a famous dancer who lived in NYC Cali, Amparo Ramos, who is very tasty (though the trumpets), Live happy, song-rudeness; bring all that goes in the same note jalajalacera Ray and Cruz had their backs since they recorded for Discos Fonseca Malandra that music with a lot of street, New York ghetto, two-way ( what is needed in , this party is a little coca cola, says Bobby in montuno) and rare Guaguancó , which is a subject that transmits its own, with a funny letter, references to Santeria and montuno has much flavor.
However, the number that defines the recording is Agúzate , a radiograph of the artistic life and its relationship with the gangs that controlled the industry of the night in New York, which houses a single exquisite piano Ricardo and participation in a portentous timpani Mike Collazo:

feel a voice say: Agúzate, you are watching

feel a voice that says, get down, you are pulling.

silly and I would if I could not

you have to be fly everywhere.

And that's why I say so

this guy does not know what he got.

Converso evangelical few years later and now-retired church pastor, Bobby Cruz has refused to give details of that scene, in an interview I did in Cali in 2003 settled the matter with a there are things behind the subject Agúzate with all your respect does not wish to share. Are things of the old man, which I have no memory. But can you imagine listening to the hostility of the letter . Ricardo, more talkative, has downplayed the issue, but explained in detail.

He said Morris Levy, master of the Roulette jazz and Latin Tico Records (when it bought its share to George Goldner, who was up to his ears in gambling debts ), and recent acquirer of Alegre Records (which had sold at Santiago in 1966 to Branston Music) was a mafioso care provider with a reputation in the industry the size of the Empire State. When Ray signed with Alegre Bobby was first becoming the crazy, confident that with the growing success of the orchestra would get a better deal. In response Mo Levy said, and the most subtle or signatures or you mouth full of concrete and throw you to the bottom of the river with a bullet in the head . Given this kind

warrant signed the contract immediately. What else.

But they were not paid as set out and asked for another responded by demanding a fee for the dances they had. To give you an idea of \u200b\u200bthe character that Levy was one of the secondary characters from the series The Sopranos, Hesh Rabkin , inspired by him.

Cruz made it known to anyone who will listen that he had contacts in the underworld, and that if anything happened to him and his family the kind they would starve all his life. At that time, Bobby was always armed, dixit-Ray, which implied the paranoia in which he lived. Still, shortly after getting this album, in an act of precaution, burning ships and moved to Puerto Rico to see if things cooled a bit . Another reason

less exciting than this story is certain that New York was already giving birth to too many orchestras, the salsa boom was about to begin and the competition was becoming too hard at times. In the island everything would be easy, it was what they thought.

The album was a bestseller, shows the gradual departure of Ray and Cruz of the styles that dominated his repertory, now in early decline, as conformed, more or less successfully, to new guidelines that marked Latin music of the 70.

published After the post is that I realize that the holder can be a bit unreadable. Here is the English translation to a neutral :
watch out that there are people who are watching to get an evil .