max salazar on TITO PUENTE.(Entrevista) From: Latin Beat Magazine | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Hernà ¡ ndez, Joe | COPYRIGHT 2002 Latin Beat Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

I visited journalist Max Salazar at his upper West Side apartment in New York City on a warm, breezy afternoon. I was eager and anxious to sit down and talk with Max. We sat down in his living room and chatted about a number of things, but mainly about the great legend Tito Puente.

Max Salazar, a native New Yorker of Puerto Rican parentage raised in "El Barrio" is a journalist, collector and Latin music historian who has spent a lifetime documenting our music. He is curr...