Jazz musicians have long mined Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and even pop music for material. Here are five Latin interpretations of songs written by jazz musicians, a process that isn't as ...

Rhythm Planet explores the world of Afro-Cuban mambo from its beginnings in the 1940’s, through its high point in the 1960’s, to the present day. Next we hear Pérez Prado’s biggest hit, “Mambo #5.” ...

Guido Herrera-Yance is one of the best tropical latin deejays in LA, and we who love salsa and all the other forms of tropical music are fortunate to have him on the air. But deejaying is not all he ...

The great Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes may not be as famous as his son, Chucho Valdes, but the elder musician remains a pianist of at least equal gifts, as this recording attests. Unlike Chucho, whose ...

Who in the Denver area doesn’t remember Cabaret Diosa’s joyful mambo rock with pleasure? If you ever saw the band play live, then you already know about its infectious stylings and intoxicating energy ...

https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.13.1.0127 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/intejcubastud.13.1.0127 Copy URL Despite his success or perhaps because of ...

Richard DeLaney and the Mambo Kings will perform Saturday evening with the Fort Smith Symphony. The concert is titled “Hot Latin Nights.” Richard DeLaney's voice bears almost no trace of his childhood ...

Colombia's peace talks are advancing at an accelerated pace – "in the rhythm of mambo", as a Farc spokesman put it. After three rounds of talks, Jesus Santrich said common ground on land reform had ...

It’s a typical weekday morning at Versailles. Most of the tables are occupied. The chatter among patrons is at its customary decibel level, competing with the clacking of utensils in the kitchen.

Richard DeLaney's voice bears almost no trace of his childhood in Lima, Peru. But his hands remember the rhythms he heard growing up, and over the 47 years since he came to the U.S. as a college ...