The career of timbalero Henry "Pucho" Brown has come full circle. As leader of Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers, the Harlem-born percussionist was a pivotal figure in the Latin boogaloo movement that fused Latin, jazz, and funk styles during the Sixties. Eight albums by Pucho and his fiery New York-based band, including a "best of" collection, were issued by Prestige Records between 1966 and ’69. As popular tastes changed in the early Seventies, however, he disbanded the Latin Soul Brothers and formed a trio that spent the next 19 years playing standards and what he calls "society Latin" music in the relative obscurity of Catskill Mountain resort hotels-which he might still be doing today if it hadn’t been for a phenomenon that arose from the British club underground known as "acid jazz."
Pucho learned in 1992 of overseas interest in his old recordings. Not only had the British acid-jazz band Galliano sampled "Freddie’s Dead" from one of Pucho’s post-Prestige albums, but Ace Records of London had reissued several of the Prestige albums-and put together its own "best of" compilation-via a licensing agreement with Fantasy, Inc. of Berkeley, which owns the Prestige catalog.
Link -- http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/artists/pucho-and-his-latin-soul-brothers/
