Lovingly dubbed “El Judío Maravilloso” (The Marvelous Jew), Lawrence Ira Kahn
(March 20, 1939), better known by his stage name Larry Harlow, was an American
pianist and producer who made a name for himself in the burgeoning New York
Latin music scene in the 70s. Born in Brooklyn into a Jewish family of
performers (his mother was an opera singer and his father was a bandleader at
the Latin Quarter), he mastered several instruments from a very young age and
traveled to Cuba in the 50s to study Afro-Cuban music. In 1959, the Cuban
Revolution made him return to the United States, whe...