Taking a short break from Palladium mambo, Puente dug deep into the African roots of Cuban dance music on this album, bringing together the percussionists Mongo Santamaría and Willie Bobo with ...

Friday, May 2, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Meet the Mambo Legends Orchestra, committed to keeping the sounds of the great Afro-Cuban bandleaders Machito, Tito Puente ...

Victor Parra was a Chicago-area radio host, musician and bandleader who championed Afro-Cuban jazz music as the host of his weekly radio show, “Mambo Express,” on both WBEZ-FM and WDCB-… ...

Afro-Cuban dance orchestras flourished in the 1950s after the decline of the jazz big bands. But the golden age of mambo was cut short by Cold War politics and the United States embargo of Cuba.

Mambo Legends: The Music Never Ends. Season 2024 Episode 3 | 54m 47s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Meet the Mambo Legends Orchestra, keeping the sounds of the great Afro-Cuban bandleaders alive.

When asked if the Bega rumors are true, King responded, "Oh, yeah. Big time. My wife threatened to divorce me. I played that a lot." The Misery writer continued, "I had the dance mix. I loved ...

A dancer of the Afro-Cuban IFE-ILE Dance Company performs at its annual dance festival in 2014. Courtesy of Nelson Alvarez/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 Later this month, rhythm and dance from the Afro ...

There is a saying in Cuba that Cubans were born dancing. From the influence of West African and Caribbean cultures to the invention of the mambo in the 1930s by native Cuban composer Arsenio ...