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 ...

The Roseland State Ballroom in Bos ton’s Back Bay, just down the street from Symphony Hall, was jumping last week. It was jumping higher than Bostomans had seen in a long while. Cause: the mambo a ...

When Paquito Hechavarria and German Pifferrer were kids, mambo was new and Dámaso Perez Prado ruled. "I remember when I was little, I used to sit at the piano," says the 62-year-old Hechavarria, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Jacob Plasse remembers vividly the first time he heard mambo music. To hear him describe it, it was nothing short of a spiritual awakening. Now, as one of the lead collaborators in ...

The Mambo king discusses his new 80's album and his relationship with his 1999 smash hit. By Jason Lipshutz Editor “Make it known that I’m still alive!” says Lou Bega, as a message to everyone in the ...

The hot new movie ”The Mambo Kings,” based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos, is not just a vehicle to bring back the Mambo craze of the 1950s. The film has plenty of this passionate ...

Friday, March 26: Tibetan Buddhism: Films From Around the World: Wheel of Time Filmmaker Werner Herzog—the German director who gave us Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Grizzly Man—explores Tibetan ...

The temperature outside may be cold, but indoors on Saturday at Springfield Symphony Hall it is going to be “hot, hot, hot” ...

DJ Luian and Mambo Kingz (Hear This Music) keep adding extraordinary collabs to their list. This time, they've joined forces with Wisin, Farruko, Myke Towers, Darell and Arcangel to release "Música." ...