ABSTRACT
Salsa is a rhythm, is a reality. . . . That the root is from the Cuban son, it is true, that the clave is important and one has to keep it, is true. But salsa is salsa. El Gran Combo plays salsa. Let's be clear. Eddie Palmieri plays salsa. Ray Barretto plays salsa. Richie Ray, Joe Cuba play salsa. Machito plays mambo, plays mambo jazz. Each thing in its place. Machito does not play salsa. 1 see it that way because of its harmonic and rhythmic structures. Cubans cannot play salsa. There is not a Cuban salsa group, it does not exist.
