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Larry Harlow & Latin Legends of Fania featuring Adalberto Santiago, Yomo Toro & Nicky Marrero + special guest DJ Gilles Peterson (Radio 1 "Worldwide") Roundhouse | part of London Jazz Festival Saturday November 17 Doors 7.30pm Roundhouse Chalk Farm Road, part of London Jazz Festival, NW1 8EH Tel: 0870 389 1846 for tickets or Roundhouse In 1971, New York exploded to sound of salsa, the new urban latin dance music with Cuban roots, Puerto Rican soul and a touch of Big Apple funk! Fania Records was at the heart of this revolution and documented the soundtrack to Latin New York in more than 1500 albums between 1964 and 1989. Fania became to salsa what Motown had been to soul, the hub of the creative talents from a close-knit scene which reached out and was there for a whole generation of music lovers worldwide. Tonight one of that scene's great innovators, pianist/bandleader Larry Harlow, has put together a team of galacticos to revisit planet salsa from the time whe