Tito Puente y Charlie Palmieri - Jam En El Barrio

Inspired by a friend's post about Latin music on web radio. Loved listening to this music in NYC circa 1970.

Worked with Tito's son Ronnie as a fellow claims adjuster at Travelers Insurance Company in Yonkers. That was a job I got after I quit advertising, disillusioned because it involved so much bullshit (I know, I know ... I eventually made a career as a lawyer, go figure ...). Went to work for the insurance company at behest of another friend named Ron who came back from the Army and went to work there for paycheck until he knew what he was going to do next. He recommended it because you got a company car and got to drive around all day listening to the radio. Actually, very pleasant gig - up and down both sides of the Hudson River Valley up to about Newburgh and Brewster. I lived in the North Bronx at the time, near Montefiore Hospital, last stop on the D Train, which, if you rode it all the way to the other end, took you to Brighton Beach before it was Little Russia.