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Willie Colón’s brass-heavy trombonist voice defined salsa’s golden age, and this Sonido compilation gathers his most essential cuts—the ones that made him a fixture in New York’s dance halls and Latin radio. Recorded across the 1960s and 70s, these tracks showcase his signature trombone arrangements layered over montuno rhythms and clave-driven percussion, capturing the raw energy of salsa’s formative years before the sound calcified into convention.