Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers was a Latin jazz

Latin jazz

Latin jazz is the general term given to jazz with Latin American rhythms.The three main categories of Latin Jazz are Brazilian, Cuban and Puerto Rican:# Brazilian Latin Jazz includes bossa nova...

, soul jazz

Soul jazz

Soul jazz is a development of jazz incorporating strong influences from blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often an organ trio featuring a Hammond organ.- Overview :Soul jazz is often associated with hard bop. Mark C...

 and R&B group formed in 1959 by timbales

Timbales

Timbales are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing, invented in Cuba. They are shallower in shape than single-headed tom-toms, and usually much higher tuned...

 player Henry "Pucho" Brown. Of the many musicians that worked in his group, Chick Corea

Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...

 is among them. In 1973 he disbanded the group and focused more on traditional Latin music.

In the 1990s, his music received interest from the British Acid Jazz scene, and the re-formed Latin Soul Brothers perform today.

Discography

• Tough! (Prestige
  Prestige Records
  Prestige Records was a jazz record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock. The company was located at 203 South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under the names of several...
  
  , 1966)
• Shuckin' and Jivin (Prestige, 1967)
• Saffron Soul (Prestige, 1967)
• Heat! (Prestige, 1968)
• Big Stick (Prestige, 1968)
• Jungle Fire (Prestige, 1969)
• Dateline (Prestige, 1969)
• Yaina (Right-On Records, 1971)
• Super Freak (Zanzee, 1972)
• Rip A Dip (Milestone Records, 1995)
• Jungle Strut (Lexington, 1995)
• Martini Madness (1996)
• Mucho Pucho (Timeless Records, 1997)
• Groovin' High (Cannonball Records, 1997)
• Caliente Con Soul! (CuBop, 1999)
• How'M I Doin'? (Cannonball Records, 2000)
• The Hideout (Milestone Records, 2004)