The Music of Héctor Lavoe & Frankie Ruiz New York Performances

At Dizzy’s Club in New York City, Salsa Meets Jazz frames the songbooks of Héctor Lavoe and Frankie Ruiz through a straight-ahead jazz lens, with alto saxophonist Vincent Herring among the featured performers. Lavoe’s 1970s New York recordings and Ruiz’s later Puerto Rican salsero style sit inside the same city story, shaped by migration, radio, and club culture. This program treats salsa not as a diversion from jazz, but as a neighboring language with shared rhythmic discipline. It reads like a brief history lesson told in solos and coro.