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...No wonder Rubén Blades, whose 1978 Siembra with Willie Colón may still be the best-selling salsa album ever, quit law school and took a job in the Fania mailroom....
...That energy and precision remain on The Latin Jazz Project, not surprising since pianist and producer Hernandez’s 40-year career stretches from working with Tito Puente to Rubén Blades and from Paul Simon...
...Corea’s lyrics, sung here by Rubén Blades, sound overworthy in English but take off in Spanish, and the fanfare brass, knitting needle rhythms and spaced bass are spot on....
...If there’s any doubt that we’ve arrived at the Holy Grail for all salseros, there’s a giant mural over the dance floor based on Leonardo’s “Last Supper” — but with Oscar D’León, Rubén Blades and Johnny Pacheco...
...Even gentle critics, such as the salsa singer Rubén Blades, are dismissed as imperialist stooges....
...Other jazz veterans present, their gifts in varying states of preservation, included Rubén Blades, the Panamanian singer, Hugh Masekela, the South African trumpeter, and Al Jarreau, the inimitable American...
...was pejorative, often to sneer at the Renaissance and Baroque masters he most disliked – Raphael (whose work he claimed no one would buy if it was offered afresh in the 20th century), Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens...
...In Pacific Rim, a sci-fi action epic directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth), Blade Runner style tropes meet an overblown Transformers plot....
...The polygamist composer Fela Kuti thought he would make a good president in Nigeria three decades ago and so did the salsa musician Rubén Blades in Panama in the 1990s....
...The beautiful early 19th-century Adolfo Mejía theatre was not packed when Greer spoke, though a decent Sunday morning crowd turned up, but the singer, writer and politician Rubén Blades filled the place...
...Most extraordinary is “The Butcher’s Shop”, which depicts two eviscerated carcasses crowded by knife-wielding lads with one crouching, blade in hand, over a live terrified lamb....
...Perhaps Ron De Jesus counted on the original score by Oscar Hernandez, Ruben Blades’ regular arranger, to lead the way only to find his species of Latin jazz too light....
...Award-winning salsa singer Ruben Blades became Panama’s minister for tourism in 2004. La Cicciolina, a former porn star, shook up Italy’s parliament in the late 1980s....
...“My father was one of the pioneers,” says Ruben Duran, a 40-year-old carpenter who fashions Gil-related handicraft from wood – and charges visitors to use his bathroom....
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