One of salsa music's most towering figures is gone — the Grammy-nominated trombonist and activist died Saturday at 75.

Willie Colón, a trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and producer whose driving musical energy and mischievous bad-boy image — he was long promoted as “El Malo” — helped made him a luminary of New...

Throughout his illustrious career, Colón earned nine gold records and five platinum records.