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 ...

The legendary Tito Puente did it all: He was a percussionist, a bandleader, a songwriter, and a producer responsible for some of the most renowned mambo, Latin jazz, and salsa classics in music ...

The 2023 South Beach Jazz Festival promises a compelling sampler of styles and talent, from established veterans to future stars. The annual event, set for Jan. 5 to 8 in several Miami Beach locations ...

Rafael Ithier, founder of the emblematic salsa group El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, has died at age 99. The pianist, composer and arranger — who served as the orchestra's longtime musical director — ...

The 2023 South Beach Jazz Festival promises a compelling sampler of styles and talent, from established veterans to future stars. The annual event takes place for four days, beginning January 5 ...

NEW YORK -- The golden age of New York Latin music is often associated with big names -- mambo kings like Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez; salsa pioneers like Willie Colon, Ray Barretto and ...

North Texas’ most popular Latin music festival, the Vitruvian Salsa Festival, continues Saturday, Aug. 9 with sounds from Dallas-based band Zone D’Mambo. Now in its 11th year at Addison’s Vitruvian ...

It’s a sunny spring afternoon in south London and a selector is slamming down some of the slinkiest salsa cuts outside of San Juan. This is one of the hottest tickets in town, a party put on by ...

“Tito Puente was not home a lot,” he recalls. “He did about 300 shows a year.” Puente Jr. didn’t realize just how big a deal his father was in Latin culture, though, until the day the legendary Latin ...

The musician, who died on Friday, was a true originator of the genre. An outsider, he lived a Latin music life by immersing himself in Afro-Caribbean culture. By Ed Morales In many ways, Larry Harlow ...

You might say Tito Puente was born to connect cultures. Puente, after all, is the Spanish word for bridge. The New York City native, born to parents from Puerto Rico, found fame the world over as the ...