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Article: At the party with Son Boricua.(salsa group's concert in San Francisco)
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- Latin Beat Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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In Fall 2003, Café Cocomo in San Francisco hosted Son Boricua, the fine New York City salsa septet. The Albert Torres presentation featuring Jimmy Sabater (timbal/vocals) and José Mangual Jr. (bongó/vocals), brought a cool breeze from the East with a refined vibes-led combo. With their personal manager Jesse RamÃrez in tow, the Cobo recording artists of Son Boricua came out and immediately captivated the crowd with its rendition of El Negro Bembón.
Just hearing Sabater's voice was a flashback, a sound reminiscent of his days with Joe Cuba in the 1960s; a throwback to an earlier time. The caliber of Sabater's potent tenor voice bears the influential traces of ...