Alex Torres Live at the Beachcomber
Event: 8013
On their excellent first three records, Amsterdam, NY's Alex Torres y Los Reyes Latinos (a.k.a. Alex Torres and the Latin Kings Orchestra) stuck to a blueprint, playing dance music around the salsa/merengue/cha-cha axis and singing everything in Spanish. With the astonishing 'Entre Amigos', they boldly go where no Latin Kings have gone before: the Kings play with genres, ignore boundaries, feature a pile of guest musicians and, for the first time, include songs sung in English. The result is a career-making and utterly original record, easily in the same league as anything the major labels are putting out and quite probably the finest record ever by a local group.
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