Armando Peraza

I mean, and they were invited to a festival, and Latin rock was essentially born.

Up to that point, it was like, you know, you had Armando Peraza, Cal Jader, you know, you had Tito Puente.

But, I mean, literally on a whim, Bill Graham was like, no, no, You know, it was like, we're going to take a chance even though we're not.

Well, there you go.

He told Les about it, and Tom decided he would produce it, so he organized this big concert at Caesar's Palace in San Francisco, the big Latin dance hall, emceed by Bill Graham, the musicians Pete and Sheila Escobedo.

There was Patato, Candido, Armando Peraza, Mongo Santamaria, this whole slew of drummers.

My name is Gregory Nava.

I first met Tom Luddy when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley.