Cuban bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had fallen ...

A large part of the reason for the overlap between American and Cuban popular music (remember that jazz was once a form of popular music) was economic. It may come as a surprise, but there was no ...

Cuban bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had fallen ...

Cuban bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday at age 89, a family spokesman said.Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy ...

Cuban bassist and composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had ...

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.

From Cuba to the Catskills, the mid-20th century saw the rise of an improbable partnership between American Jews and the mambo. And with its popularity, a Yiddish-inspired term entered the lexicon ...

Salsa, Mambo, Cha Cha Cha is set to wipe the standard nostalgic images of pre-revolutionary Cuba from theatre-goers minds. The music and dance in the video tease retains the rawness and spontaneity… ...

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 ...

The music is hot, the mojitos are ice cold and the clock is frozen at 1950 at this retro Cuban restaurant. "We're trying to evoke the golden era of Havana," says catering and events manager ...

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.

Victor Parra, longtime host of ‘Mambo Express’ radio show, shared passion for Afro-Cuban jazz with thousands Mr. Parra, who had more than 8,000 vinyl albums in his collection that he would ...