Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra - A Centennial Salute To Tito & Tito - Truth Revolutions

For more than a decade, the Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra (SOLJO) has been one of the most precious hidden treasures of the Bronx, New York City’s majority Hispanic borough. The trumpeter-educator Steven Oquendo founded SOLJO while working as a music instructor at Harlem School of the Arts. The orchestra performed alongside Celia Cruz, Rubén Blades, and Eddie Palmieri, initially as a rehearsal band. At the behest of impresario David Maldonado, the ensemble soon found itself working regularly with a weekly residency across the river. This recording finds the band tearing it up, celebrating the centennial of Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, located just a few blocks uptown from the old Palladium Ballroom, where the two Titos made history at the home of the mambo.