A product of the city of New Yok and exciting and turbulent 60s, the New Swing Sextet made his first professional debut during the tournament SINGER signature, at the last World's Fair in New York for the year 1965. The band was very popular in the United States and Latin America including the Caribbean as exponents of a sound new and innovative that emerged in the mid-60s known com or Boogaloo and then a close relative -A- Shing Ling. This kind of grouping known as Sextet germinated during the transition stage - decline of mambo and salsa coming back - and they were who pushed a young sound rebel, funny addition to embarrass the great bands of the moment as the Gran Combo of Puerto Rico , the Orchestra Cachana teacher Joe Quijano , the master Tito Puente, the Gran Machito, the master Tito Rodriguez, orchestras t Ipicas as that of Pacheco y su Charanga, the Orquesta Broadway, Fajardo and his Charanga l as orchestras P Perfect achangueras as Eddie Palmieri, the Duboney Charlie Palmieri, Orlando Marín, Al C astellano, Randy Carlos, etc. The Jazz Sextet experimented with Latino , Pop, Pop Ballads (style Mamas and The Papas) Funk and later with the rising Salsa music for the 70s.
Composed of piano, vibes, bass, Latin percussion and vocals , the New Swing Sextet reaped many successes and countless awards for their presentations, and stood out for supporting social events and beneficial to the nascent C ommunity America . He participated in the demonstrations called civic organization Newyorrican The Young Lords Party to fight for better housing and living standards of the community of Barrio and the Bronx .
The New Swing disintegrates in the late years '70s and is just to take a break , d ado many of its members left their careers to studying and the other to dedicate it to activities of a private nature. However in the two founding members of the group "Yeyo" Salgado and George Rodriguez recent years - the "skinny Georgi" - have returned to rebuild the S exteto , stim to two that creative ability that both share and their progressive concepts of music . This "New" Sextet has returned to offer his New Yorker public its sound attractive , fast and has been found now a new generation that likes music, in effect, "To this generation have our sound perfectly preserved in a bottle , with the intention of which this new generation will enjoy it " were what s comment i or s of Yeyo and George , while Pete Ortiz expressed with characteristic irreverence: "The New Swing was fucking" .
As a tribute to Boogaloo in its 40 years of birth and as the New Swing Sextet grouping "calving" of those rebellious years, Latino Heritage offers its readers this interview and also appreciates the warmth of Yeyo Salgado, Pedro "Peter "Ort í z George Rodriguez for granting the noteworthy that were so diligent in all the time that we experienced.
The interviews were conducted in July 2003 in L Oíza - Puerto Rico e n New York for January 2004.
Link -- http://www.herencialatina.com/New_Swing_Sextet/New_Swing.htm
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