The '50s and '60s cusp saw a last flowering of the bilingual, Cubop-inflected, often vibraphone-led quintet sound.
Puente was one of its heavies, but in New York at least, the tradition was maintained into the pachanga and even boogalu era of the '60s by
Joe Cuba. Jaunty mambo, soupy English-lyric boleros, Latin-jazz or neo-típico; this was an archetypal Latin New York sound. ~ John Storm Roberts