The legendary salsa film Our Latin Thing from 1972, in addition to a number of spectacular performances by The Fania All Stars, also offers a glimpse into life in Puerto Rican part of New York in the seventies when cockfighting was still the ultimate form of street entertainment and the municipal cleaning service only offered this area. visited sparingly. But that did not matter, because as in so
… many areas where poverty is rampant, the population displaced this misery by celebrating exuberantly. Unfortunately, nobody has done anything to fix the image and sound. The image is that of a video that has lain in a dusty attic for years and the sound is regularly drowned out by an enormous amount of noise. Nevertheless, Our Latin Thing is an important document for fans of salsa and Latin jazz. (AD)more
