Think of the Pacific Mambo Orchestra as party insurance. Booking this 19-piece Latin band offers a guarantee that an event will attain the heat necessary for a dance floor conflagration. At least that ...

Pacific Mambo Orchestra—PMO, for short—has a lot to celebrate. With the calendar turning to 2020, this Grammy-winning Latin big band celebrated its 10th anniversary and the early January release of ...

Central Havana's streets are busy and noisy. It's a mostly residential area; 19th-century, two-storey houses butting up against utilitarian '60s apartment blocks. People do business from door fronts ...

Producer Jacob Plasse teamed up with the beloved mambo singer Jose “Pepito” Gomez and an all-star group of Cuban jazz players last year. Their aim was to make a mambo record that could sit alongside ...

As the 2020 Carnival season builds to a climax, there’s more than “Mardi Gras Mambo” in local music venues. Here are highlights of the big week ahead. The rock/rap/reggae hybrid that is 311 has proven ...