CHICO — Cuban-born band Orquesta Akokan travels from New York to bring a mix of mambo and salsa to the West Coast this month. Performing at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. on June 21, this will be ...

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is proud to announce the Spectacular 2024-2025 Season Opening Concert featuring THE MAMBO LEGENDS ORCHESTRA, LUCRECIA, XIOMARA LAUGART, & NELSON GONZALEZ. On ...

Producer Jacob Plasse teamed up with the beloved mambo singer Jose “Pepito” Gomez and an all-star group of Cuban jazz players last year. Their aim was to make a mambo record that could sit alongside ...

NEW YORK - Celia Cruz, who went from singing in Havana nightclubs to become the "Queen of Salsa," died Wednesday, her publicist said. Cruz, who was 77, died of a brain tumor. She had surgery for the ...

Pacific Mambo Orchestra, with Georgia trombonist Jamie Dubberly, plays the Rialto on Feb. 19. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2010, in a San Francisco Bay Area club, Latin big band Pacific Mambo Orchestra played ...

One of the major misnomers about the history of Latin Jazz is the small scope of coverage that the music has received outside of the accomplishments of musicians within New York City. There’s no doubt ...