The Apollo Theater Presents From Havana to Harlem: 100 Years of Mario Bauzá Featuring the Bobby Sanabria Big Band Legendary Theater Celebrates its Afro-Cuban Roots Saturday, June 18th, 8PM On the ...

When Prudencio Mario Bauzá stepped off the boat from Havana onto the docks in New York, in 1930, he brought with him a sophisticated knowledge of Cuban music, and a respect and penchant for American ...

Cuban band leader Mario Bauza, creator of Afro-Cuban jazz and a musician who played with such well-known stars as Cab Calloway and Fletcher Henderson, died on Sunday in his Manhattan apartment of ...

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Behind every great big band, there’s a great arranger—the organizing visionary who helps set the ensemble’s sound. In the case of Machito and His Afro-Cubans, a formative forties dance orchestra that ...

As a pianist and composer Marcus Persiani earned an international reputation touring and recording with Cuban band leader and composer Mario Bauzá, Dizzy Gillespie, Andy González and Jerry González, ...

Well-informed historians and critics have stated that they believe jazz is America's only art form or its most important art form. Obviously, to music scholars and experts, most pop music derives from ...

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