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Located in Amsterdam, NY, a little city close to Albany, bass player and vocalist Alex Torres and his fourteen-piece group, Los Reyes Latinos (translated as “The Latin Kings”) possess attracted worldwide attention making use of their exciting, horn-driven method of Latin dance music. Voted “Greatest Latin music group” by Metroland …

Pianist, bandleader, and supervisor José Curbelo was created in Havana; he previously a Cuban mom and a dad who was simply raised in the us and performed violin using the Havana Philharmonic. At eight, Curbelo started 2 yrs of research under composer Pedro Menendez and went to the Molinas Conservatory …

“The Poet from the Piano,” Carmen Cavallaro was created Might 6, 1913 in NEW YORK; though a classically-trained performer, with time he extended into pop preparations in the setting of his key motivation, Eddy Duchin. Following a four-year stint because the highlighted soloist with bandleader Al Kavelin, in 1937 Cavallaro …

The widely acknowledged “Initial Lady from the Hammond Body organ,” Ethel Smith remains best remembered on her behalf recording from the Argentine traditional “Tico-Tico,” which sold near two million copies through the middle-’40s. Created Ethel Goldsmith in Pittsburgh on November 22, 1910, she researched music and linguistics at Carnegie Technology, …

Nine of Cuba’s most talented ladies instrumentalists and performers joined together, beneath the path of Katja Marquez Rodriguez to generate the dance-inspiring noises of Todas las Cecilias de Cuba. Making use of their vocals punctuated by brass-driven preparations, the group effectively mixes Cuba’s musical customs with jazz and rock and …

More around the kitschy easy hearing side compared to the even, great Latin recordings of Cal Tjader, Don Swan was non-etheless among the better light musicians to create inroads into Latin jazz through the ’50s. Swan was created Wilbur Clyde Schwandt in Manitowoc, WI, on June 28, 1904; he analyzed …