Pucho Brown

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Henri "Pucho" Brown (born November 1, 1938 in Harlem (New York)) is an American percussionist ( timbalist ) who is best known as the leader of the band Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers .

Live and act

Brown founded his own band Los Locos Diablos after high school and played in Joe Panama's sextet for 1955 and then briefly with Joe Cuba . In 1959 he founded his band Cha Cha Brothers , in which many musicians played who previously worked for Panama. The band covered well-known tracks by Herbie Hancock , Duke Ellington , John Barry , the Temptations or the Beatles , and interpreted them as well as their own material in their own Latin jazz flair. In 1963 the band made their first recordings, which included musicians such as Chick Corea , Hubert Laws and later Harold Alexander , Neal Creque and Cornell Dupree ; Between 1966 and 1970 seven albums were created for Prestige Records under the name Soul Brothers , some with singer Jackie Soul. The band, which initially made a decisive contribution to Latin soul based on hard bop and soul jazz and was particularly successful as a live band, later also opened up to psychedelic pop music . Many members of the Latin Soul Brothers later played with Tito Puente and Mongo Santamaría . In 1973 Brown broke up the band and played Latin music in the Catskill Mountains for the next few years . After Brown's music was rediscovered in British acid jazz, he reorganized his band in 1995 and recorded several albums.

In 2003 Brown was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame (as the second ever African American after Dizzy Gillespie ).

Discographic notes

  • Tough! (Prestige, 1966)
  • Saffron Soul (Prestige, 1966)
  • Big Stick (Prestige, 1967)
  • Shuckin 'and Jivin (Prestige, 1967)
  • Heat! (Prestige, 1968)
  • Dateline (Prestige, 1969)
  • Jungle Fire (Prestige, 1970)
  • Super Freak (Zanzee, 1972)

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personal data
SURNAME Brown, Pucho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American percussionist and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City