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Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado.It originated as a syncopated form of the danzón, known as danzón-mambo, with a final, improvised section, which incorporated the guajeos typical of son cubano (also known as montunos).
The mambo first entered the United States around 1950, though ideas had been developing in Cuba and Mexico City for some time. The mambo as understood in the United States and Europe was considerably different from the danzón-mambo of Orestes "Cachao" Lopez , which was a danzón with extra syncopation in its final part.
Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar (June 14, 1927 – January 13, 2009) [1] was named "the greatest Mambo dancer ever" by Life magazine and Tito Puente. Pedro Aguilar was nicknamed "Cuban Pete" and el cuchillo. [2] Aguilar was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He took tap-dance training in childhood and had an early career in boxing.
Mambo dancers at the ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico. Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuba which was developed in the 1940s when the music genre of the same name became popular throughout Latin America. The original ballroom dance which emerged in Cuba and Mexico was related to the danzón, albeit faster and less rigid.
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Tresillo is the rhythmic basis of many African and Afro-Cuban drum rhythms, as well as the ostinato bass tumbao in Cuban son-based musics, such as son montuno, mambo, salsa, and Latin jazz. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The example below shows a tresillo-based tumbao from "Alza los pies Congo" by Septeto Habanero (1925).
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