With his mambo orchestra a hit right out of the gate, Sergio Mendoza wanted to take his time to record the band’s debut album. Taking their cue from Perez Prado, Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta have put ...

A Harlem-born New York original, the percussionist, composer and bandleader helped define Latin jazz and lay the groundwork for 1970s salsa. By Ed Morales Ernest Anthony Puente, known as Tito, was ...

In this episode of Momentos Musicales, TPR's James Baker listens to the mambo, popularized by Pérez Prado and incorporated by Leonard Bernstein into West Side Story.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. PUTNEY — The Bandwagon Summer Series continues its 2025 season with a celebration of Latin jazz as Jonathan Powell’s Mambo Jazz Party takes the stage ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The Vermont Jazz Center Big Band will host its annual big band gala on Friday at 8 p.m. For this concert the band will present a tribute to the Mambo Kings, performing the music of the ...

Lou Bega’s signature song, “Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…),” is celebrating its 25th anniversary.kpa/United Archives via Getty Images In the spring of 1999, a 24-year-old guy with a Panama hat, a ...

"His mambo's so good, it deserves to be in the World Series," a hoarse young woman yelled toward Jose Lima, the rangy pitcher just then on the mound for her Escogido Lions. He's a Houston Astro when ...

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-FM. Parra was ...

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