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mambo! mambo! mambo! - jazzboCR - 27-07-2014
Latin music is at its heart always dance music first so this Mambo piece should fit right in here. Shame it doesn't have its own Forum.
The male half of the best Mambo dance team ever, the one who brought the music and dancing, transforming it and by extension leading all Latin music to world consciousness, has just died: Augie Rodriguez. Here's the obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/nyregion/augie-rodriguez-86-half-of-a-mambo-team-dies.html Couldn't find good vids, just bits and pieces: http://goldcoastballroom.com/1677/augie-and-margo-rodriguez and http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2augmrg.htm and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/latinmusicusa/index.html#/en/wat/01/05 << just a shame there isn't more to be shared.