rancisco Ra?l Guti?rrez Grillo, also known as Machito, was born in Havana, Cuba, on Dec. 3, 1907, although some accounts list other dates and years. Macho, as he was affectionately known, was ...

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A family-led operation, the Machito Orchestra was established in 1939 and continues to attract some of the best-known musicians in Latin jazz. The New York-based group comes to town this week in a ...

Meet the Mambo Legends Orchestra, comprised of former members of the Tito Puente Orchestra. Meet the Mambo Legends Orchestra who committed to keeping the sounds of the great Afro-Cuban bandleaders ...

Modeled after the highly acclaimed retrospective of Tito Puente in 2017, the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture will honor the late iconic singer and bandleader Francisco Machito Grillo (1908-1984) ...

First up, Sonny Rollins our man in jazz, a live free-form date recorded 63 years ago this week at the Village Gate, NYC; from there, we move into a summer set of sounds from the NY Catskill mountains ...

Throughout his childhood and teen years, percussionist Bobby Sanabria was introduced to the masterworks of Latino musicians who would become his musical heroes — among them Tito Puente and bandleader ...