Larry Harlow

Larry Harlow’s Suite and (Sometimes) Sour Life in Salsa

By Richard Gehr

Larry Harlow is the closest you'll get to a missing link between the worlds of rock and salsa. In fact, as the '60s bled into the '70s, a friend with an open-topped biplane used to taxi the pianist-composer between gigs with his horn-heavy, LSD-stoked rock band, Ambergris, and Harlow's increasingly vital Latin combo. But despite writing the world's first rock-inspired salsa opera — Hommy — and cutting intriguing crossover tracks like "Me and My Monkey/Mi… more »