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By age 13, Colón had started a band and played at some weddings and in the bustling nightclubs of New York City.

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Willie Colón, a legendary trombonist and pioneer of salsa music, has died.

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News of the singer’s condition circulated on the web in recent days.

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It seemed like a natural choice for the former bugle-playing Boy Scout, who attended the youth program at the suggestion of his grandmother.

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The thrilling 1960s Latin music scene in New York consumed Colón, who was deeply inspired by Latin jazz pioneer and bandleader Eddie Palmieri, once part of a main act at the Palladium Ballroom who went on to form La Perfecta, a Cuban conjunto that revolutionized the New York Latin music scene with its inclusion of two trombones, played by Barry Rogers and Jose Rodriguez, instead of the costly four-set trumpets.

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