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Alfarona X - music group's director Luis Cruz - Entrevista - BiografÃÂa
During the first week of August 1945, nine musicians boarded the S.S. Fairfax in San Juan, Puerto Rico and headed toward New York City. After a...
Latin Beat Magazine, 02/01/04 by Max Salazar · More from publication -
Salsa music rivalries and battles: Part II
The acceptance of the mambo by non-Latinos in 1951 was the incentive ambitious musicians needed to become bandleaders. For years there was...
Latin Beat Magazine, 09/01/03 by Max Salazar · More from publication -
Salsa music rivalries and battles
It was the Spring of 1935. The movie had just ended in the Campoamor Theatre on 5th Avenue and 116th Street when suddenly the people in the theatre...
Latin Beat Magazine, 08/01/03 by Max Salazar · More from publication -
1968 First Latin Music Entertainment Awards
In 1968, thirty-eight years after Hispanic entertainment began to flourish in New York City, a magazine called Latin New York Magazine honored this...
Latin Beat Magazine, 10/01/02 by Max Salazar · More from publication -
Orestes Lopez and the mambo
In late 1949, PÃÂérez Prado's recording of Mambo #5 started a new trend that constantly grew in popularity. By 1954, the mambo craze...
Latin Beat Magazine, 09/01/02 by Max Salazar · More from publication -
Machito's legacy: the Machito Orchestra was among New York City's top five most popular orchestras for twenty years beginning in 1940. On Sunday, April 13, 1984, he died in London, England, at age 75. The following is a resume of Machito's career
Frank "Machito" Grillo: Musician, Vocalist and Composer. Frank "Machito" Grillo: Musician, Vocalist and Composer. Experience: Born in the...
Latin Beat Magazine, 06/01/02 by Max Salazar · More from publication -
Johnny Segui: a forgotten salsero
During the late '40s, Latin New York's top music aggregations were the orchestras of Noro Morales, Machito, Marcelino Guerra, JosÃÂé...
Latin Beat Magazine, 05/01/02 by Max Salazar · More from publication -
Norman Grantz Pioneer of Afro Cuban Jazz - Obituario
On Thursday, November 22, 2001, jazz impresario Norman Grantz died of cancer in Geneva, Switzerland at age 83. Famed for his Jazz At The...
Latin Beat Magazine, 03/01/02 by Max Salazar · More from publication -
Los pioneros de la salsa - música latina - TT: The Pioneers of SALSA - TA: latin music
The history of the popular dance music known as "SALSA" is deeply rooted to the African drum in Africa. It began when the African found a means of...
Latin Beat Magazine, 12/01/01 by Max Salazar · More from publication -
The perfect combination Tamara and Lou - ArtÃÂculo Breve
Even since 1930, when Latin music began to flourish in New York City, hundreds of musical aggregations have come and gone. The ones remembered are...
Latin Beat Magazine, 11/01/01 by Max Salazar · More from publication
