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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 ...

 This week we listen to some Afro-Cuban mambo from its beginnings in the 1940’s, through its high point in the 1960’s, to the present day. Like the words bongo and… Next we hear Pérez Prado’s biggest ...

The John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival has always been about more than great performances about connection, creativity, and community. This year, festival organizers are turning up ...

FOR A fast dance, the mambo took a slow boat to New York. But once it arrived here in 1946, almost a decade after the Lopez brothers introduced it in Cuba, the only question for local dancers was how ...

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 ...

Lou Bega knows exactly why “Mambo No. 5” has endured. “There’s two levels. The superficial level that we all enjoy. We dance to it—it’s joyful,” Bega says of his 1999 megahit documenting a series of ...

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 ...