To date, the Latin dance album that holds the record for sales remains Tito Puente's Dance Mania. Recorded in November and December of 1957 and released in early 1958, Dance Mania was the first ...
The Pacific Mambo Orchestra is a 19-piece big band dedicated to championing the classic mambo sounds of the great Latin big bands of the 1940s through 1960s, including Machito, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz ...
MIAMI — Cuban bassist and composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez, a pioneer of mambo and a key figure in the 1960s Latin jazz scene in New York, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the ...