Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the Mambo Room Cultural Dance & Event Center is closing its doors at the end of the month, the heart and soul of the small ...

FOR A fast dance, the mambo took a slow boat to New York. But once it arrived here in 1946, almost a decade after the Lopez brothers introduced it in Cuba, the only question for local dancers was how ...

Lou Bega knows exactly why “Mambo No. 5” has endured. “There’s two levels. The superficial level that we all enjoy. We dance to it—it’s joyful,” Bega says of his 1999 megahit documenting a series of ...

The John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival has always been about more than great performances about connection, creativity, and community. This year, festival organizers are turning up ...

When the band Machito and His Afro-Cubans “make a brand-new sound called Latin jazz” in 1940, everyone in New York City dances to it—Italian people such as Millie, and Puerto Rican folks like Pedro, ...

While the Mambo Room Cultural Dance & Event Center is closing its doors at the end of the month, the heart and soul of the small business cannot be stopped. Kianda Fiske, owner of the studio on 21st ...