The Mambo is a Musical genre Cuba in and a style of Danse.
History
In 1937, Orestes López, player of Violoncello Cuba in Conjunto of Danzon “Antonio Arcaño known there Maravillas” with the Double bass his little brother Israel “Cachao”, composes a piece named “Mambo” starting from Nuevo ritmo of the Danzon.Mambo is a word of origin Bantou E which means “Voice in Chorus”. To the Congo, he wants to say lullaby or hymn.
Influenced by the Jazz of Stan Kenton and Dizzy Gillespie, the Lopez brothers will transform “conjunto” orchestrates some to them incorporating:
4 Saxophone S, 4 trumpet S, Piano, low, Maracas, Congas, Drinking cups.
Dámaso Pérez Prado, pianist of the " Orquesta Casíno of Playa" was then packed by this rate/rhythm, but not recontrant success with Cuba, it leaves to the Mexico, where it meets Benny Moré.
It will be called “El Rey del Mambo” (the king of the mambo).
It is with Francisco “Machito” Grillo and Perez Prado that the Danse Mambo (derivative of the Rumba) is born in the night clubs “Los Angeles Dance” from Mexico City and “Tropicana” from Havana in 1943, before conquering New York in 1949, in “Park Plaza Hotel Ballroom” of Harlem initially, then in the clubs Palladium , China Fraud , Havana Madrid and Birdland .
Palladium was an immense ballroom which can accommodate thousand couples, located at the angle of Broadway and the 53ème rue.
Mambo was initially programmed Sunday morning, then the Wednesday evening and finally the every day, with the orchestras of Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez and Jose Curbelo.
In 1954, Mambo knows a great popularity in the United States thanks to successes of Perry Como ( Papa Coil Mambo ) and Rosemary Clooney ( Mambo Italiano ). In France, these pieces will be taken again by Dario Moreno.
The fashion of Mambo ( Mambomania or Mambo Craze in English) will last until the arrival of the Cha-cha-cha in 1954.
Following the success of Lou Bega in 1999 which had taken again “Mambo No 5” of Perez Prado way Dance, other groups have mixed the mambo with the Dance: Shaft Mucho Mambo (Sway) , Reprise again of Quien will be (Sway) and Mambo Italiano ,…
Origins of the mambo
Mambo is originating in the island of Cuba. Its more close relative is the Danzon, itself derived from the Charanga or the Tumba francesa which was introduced in Cuba by Haiti ens fleeing the revolution (one agrees to say that this musical genre became Danzon in the Années 1920). In 1938, Orestes Lopez composed Danzon entitled " Mambo" who ended in an improvisation on a fast rate/rhythm (musical section up to that point unknown in Danzon). Arcaño (leader of the group of which Orestes Lopez formed part) also somewhat modified the usual composition instrumental of the groups playing of Danzon (essentially, it replaced the low usual by low of His), thus creating what was quickly to be known under the name Danzon-Mambo . Mambo referred then to the fast section placed at the end of the piece, while Danzon referred to the two traditional sections of the music of the same name. Mambo was to be born as a Musical genre with whole share, when pieces were recorded playing only the final section. Finally let us specify that this music, such as one knows it today, is the fruit many refinements which took place in particular in North America, with which one owes the introduction of instruments coming from the Jazz.
Films sets of themes
- This dance is the topic of the Film “Mambo Kings” with Antonio Banderas.
- Mad butt mambo of John Strong (2000).
External bonds
- the mambo on MontunoCubano.com
- the Mambo dance on Dance History Files (StreetSwing.com)
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