hen you think of the New York City Palladium, and the part it played as Latin music's most famous nightclub, you will find that not much has been written about it. The dance hall opened its doors in ...

“They were doin’ the mambo. What the heck is a mambo?” came across the space of my office. I listen to “oldies” to open up the right side of my mind for creativity as I write. Those lyrics and the ...

While the Mambo Room Cultural Dance & Event Center is closing its doors at the end of the month, the heart and soul of the small business cannot be stopped. Kianda Fiske, owner of the studio on 21st ...

No musician was more responsible in his lifetime for bringing the sound of Latin music to jazz and popular music audiences than Tito Puente. During a career spanning over half a century Puente ...

Tony Cox talks to Henry Chalfant, the producer of the new documentary From Mambo to Hip Hop, about the mambo dance craze and the birth of hip-hop in New York's South Bronx neighborhood. New York ...

From 1974 to the early 1980s, disco ruled the clubs. But in the late 1940s and 1950s, the dance that was significantly more pervasive and influential was the mambo. From the start, the mambo's ...

When the band Machito and His Afro-Cubans “make a brand-new sound called Latin jazz” in 1940, everyone in New York City dances to it—Italian people such as Millie, and Puerto Rican folks like Pedro, ...

Shimmering in the Anacostia Community Museum's collection are the ruffled sleeves of Washington, DC’s “Original Mambo King,” Roland Kavé. The musician and dance instructor introduced mambo to his ...

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 to ...