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Rubén Blades, a Salsa Legend, Swings in a Different Direction: Jazz “Salswing!,” his new project with the Panamanian big band leader Roberto Delgado, celebrates the connections between Afro-Cuban music and jazz. Rubén Blades’s “Salswing!” project traces its roots to a November 2014 performance with Wynton Marsalis’s Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.Credit.Chase Hall for The New York Times By Ed Morales Rubén Blades is a renowned vocalist, one of the emblematic singer-songwriters of 1970s salsa . But he’s not always recognized for his achievements in other disciplines: He’s also a Broadway and Hollywood actor, a composer, a Harvard Law School master’s graduate and a one-time candidate for president of his native Panama. And don’t ever say he can’t sing a swing tune like Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett.

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