Mambo king Tito Puente will be the focus point of a three-day conference at the Bronx’s Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture. According to Billboard, “Tito Puente: A 50-Year Retrospective of El Rey” ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, in association with Joe Conzo, Sr., will ...

Many music fans enjoy a time-machine fantasy where they are transported back to a famous dance club of the past. For some, it's Studio 54 or the Fillmore, but for me, the first choice would be New ...

Tito Puente Jr. has spent a great deal of his career simply uplifting his father, magnifying the cosmic reverberations left by that singularly inventive and beloved force in music (and the world) Tito ...

No musician was more responsible in his lifetime for bringing the sound of Latin music to jazz and popular music audiences than Tito Puente. During a career spanning over half a century Puente ...

It’s been business as usual for the Tito Puente Orchestra despite the recent loss of their beloved bandleader. Any speculation that Puente’s Latin jazz/tropical music ensemble would dissolve after his ...

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To date, the Latin dance album that holds the record for sales remains Tito Puente's Dance Mania. Recorded in November and December of 1957 and released in early 1958, Dance Mania was the first ...

The sons of three pioneering Latin music artists are honoring their fathers’ legacy by recreating the magic of Manhattan’s famed Palladium Ballroom. The Big 3 Palladium Orchestra — led by the musician ...