View basket “We Get Requests” has been added to your basket. Crime Pays Willie Colon Hector Lavoe SKU: 7242636 Barcode: 0888072426368 36.00 £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Craft Recordings Released Date: 19th May 2023 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Eight years after its creation, Fania Records had accumulated such a sizable catalog of artists that it began to issue compilations from its roster of hit-making stars such as Willie Colón, Larry Harlow, Johnny Pacheco, and Ray Barretto. In fact, Crime Pays was the first anthology the label put out in 1972. The ironically titled Crime Pays was a comment on the success of Colón’s carefully cultivated bad guy image that he sustained until the mid-1970s. The anthology compiles nine key cuts from his first four albums. His 1967 debut album El Malo (The Bad Guy) is represented by his first hit, the mambo jazz instrumental Jazzy and the title track, a bomba-guaguancó composed by Colón. Jazzy was co-penned by Colón and his African-American pianist Dwight Brewster and bassist James Taylor. The album’s recording director, Fania co-founder Johnny Pacheco, bought Héctor Lavoe in to sing lead vocals. According to Brewster’s biography, Lavoe initially shared the view of older musicians that Colón’s was a kiddie band, but it was only after he heard the playback of “Jazzy” and two Colón/Brewster tunes that he changed his mind and agreed to join. Lavoe was to remain until Colón gave up his band in 1974. Colón’s follow-up, The Hustler (1968), is represented by “Guajirón,” composed by Brewster’s replacement on piano, Mark “Markolino” Dimond, also African-American, Que Lio, a guajira co-written by Joe Cuba, Lavoe, and Colón, and the boogaloo “Eso Se Baila Así” penned by Colón. Dimond takes one of his elegant trademark solos on “Guajirón.” A brilliantly talented yet tragic figure, Dimond, who was already a drug addict at the time of The Hustler, dropped out of the New York recording scene in the mid-1970s and died in the 1980s, leaving a small yet masterful legacy of recorded work mostly for the Fania family of labels. Colón takes an effective trombone solo on “Que Lio.” “Guisando” and “El Titán,” both co-written by Colón and Lavoe, originate from Colón’s third Fania outing Guisando – Doing A Job ( 1969). Though un-credited, this was Dimond’s last recording with Colón before he commenced an ill-fated career as a bandleader. Other un-credited personnel on the album included Charlie Cotto on timbales, Santi González on bass, Chucky López on bongo, and Barry Rogers on trombone with Justo Betancourt and Pacheco doing the first of many coro duos for Colón’s albums. “Che Che Colé” and “Juana Peña” are taken from Colón’s fourth Fania release Cosa Nuestra (Our Thing; 1970), his first album to go gold. “Che Che Colé,” adapted by Colón from a Ghanaian children’s song, was his biggest hit up to that point and catapulted him into superstardom. “What really made the tune fun was Héctor’s humorous Spanish (language) interpretations of the coro,” comments Ray Rosado, leader of Maña, who knew Colón in the early days and continued to follow his career. “Juana Peña” was another Colón/Lavoe composition. Available on 180g vinyl LP for the first time in decades courtesy of Craft Recordings. Housed in a gatefold tip-on jacket. Artist Willie Colon Hector Lavoe Genre Jazz Label Craft Recordings Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Ché Ché Colé El Malo Guisando Jazzy Juana Pena Guajirón El Titán Qué Lío Eso Se Baila Así Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Willie Colon Hector Lavoe and more from Jazz View Product Quick View Willie Colon Hector Lavoe La Gran Fuga (The Big Break) World / Fusion | Craft Recordings | 180g, 1LP Released 12th April 2024 £35.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Willie Colon Hector Lavoe La Gran Fuga (The Big Break) £35.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Craft Recordings SKU: 7256034 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 12th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Willie Colon Hector Lavoe Vigilante Soundtrack | Craft Recordings | 180g, 1LP Released 3rd November 2023 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Willie Colon Hector Lavoe Vigilante £26.00 Genre: Soundtrack Label: Craft Recordings SKU: 7250417 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 3rd November 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jimmy Scott The Source Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 23rd October 2015 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jimmy Scott The Source £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1559 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 23rd October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dexter Gordon A Swingin’ Affair Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 1LP Released 10th April 2020 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Dexter Gordon A Swingin’ Affair £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 850292 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th April 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Isao Suzuki Quartet + 1 Blue City Jazz | Craftman | 180g, 1LP Released 7th April 2023 £70.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Isao Suzuki Quartet + 1 Blue City £70.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Craftman SKU: CMRSLPI156 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 7th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Art Pepper Intensity Jazz | Contemporary Records (Acoustic Sounds Series) | 180g, 1LP Released 11th October 2024 £35.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Art Pepper Intensity £35.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Contemporary Records (Acoustic Sounds Series) SKU: 7259016 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th October 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tony Williams Foreign Intrigue Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 1LP Released 10th January 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tony Williams Foreign Intrigue £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 838341 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Patricia Barber Companion (1 Step) Jazz | Impex Records | 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Box Set Released 26th April 2024 £152.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Patricia Barber Companion (1 Step) £152.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impex Records SKU: IMXLPO6053-45 Formats: 180g, 2LP, 45rpm, Box Set Released Date: 26th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Nat Adderley Work Song Jazz | Fantasy | 1LP Released 8th January 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nat Adderley Work Song £18.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Fantasy SKU: AOJC363 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th January 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sonny Sharrock Black Woman Jazz | 4 Men With Beards | 1LP Released 10th August 2016 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sonny Sharrock Black Woman £27.00 Genre: Jazz Label: 4 Men With Beards SKU: 4M103LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gerry Mulligan Night Lights (Acoustic Sounds) Jazz | Decca (UMO) [GB] | Jazz | Verve | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 26th April 2024 £36.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Gerry Mulligan Night Lights (Acoustic Sounds) £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca (UMO) [GB] | Jazz | Verve SKU: 6501836 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 26th April 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit Jazz | Blue Note | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 9th September 2013 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit £30.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 3743154 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 9th September 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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