Following on the heels of several previous reissues of groundbreaking albums from trombonist Willie Colon, Craft brings us The Big Break—Lan Gran Fuga. The sixth Fania album from Colón would also be ...

There’s a scene in “El Cantante,” the controversial biopic about salsa singer Hector Lavoe starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, when a sudden downpour washes out a sparsely attended concert ...

Lovely news: “El Cantante” is not a vanity project. Indeed, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony – two powerhouse entertainers – deliver professionally earnest, at times truly gritty, performances in their ...

For Héctor Lavoe’s biographer, what’s more relevant about the salsa superstar’s life is precisely what’s not in the book. Marc Shapiro’s “Passion and Pain” (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.95) is a ...

The opening of Leon Ichaso’s biopic of salsa star Héctor Lavoe has a buzzy vitality that doesn’t prepare you for what a drag the rest of the movie is. Jennifer Lopez, as Lavoe’s long-suffering but ...

The tumultuous life of Hector Lavoe — the late salsa pioneer who helped popularize the genre in the United States — was a lot like one of his signature tunes. Bursts of passion and joy were punctuated ...