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 Mambo King” The word mambo comes from the nañigo dialect spoken in Cuba. It probably has no real meaning, but occurs in the phrase "abrecuto y guiri mambo" ("open your eyes and listen") used to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mambo, bolero, swing and guaguanco … swirling taffeta and two-toned shoes … orchids pinned to organza and dark blue lapels … these are some of the nostalgic sounds and images conjured by An ...

Have we made any sort of big deal about Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta show at The Rhythm Room? Just because we ran a preview under the headline “DO NOT MISS SERGIO MENDOZA” and one of our writers called ...