Jazz Articles about Raul Gutierrez Villanueva

Raul Gutierrez And His Cuban Big Band: Prado... Vive!

by Chris May
March 20, 2021

At the start of the 1950s, Cuban bandleader Pérez Prado, the subject of this tribute album, led the hottest big band in Cuba. By the end of the decade, he had been crowned the King of Mambo by the Latin American diaspora in New York City, too, and his cameo appearances in Hollywood movies had helped make him a favourite with audiences across the world. Prado passed in Mexico City in 1989, a few weeks after the publication of Oscar ...