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Gerardo Contino

Arsenio and Beyond

By Bobby Sanabria

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2026
Track listing: Tumba y Bongo; La Fruta; No Quiero; La Cartera; La Vida es un Sueno; Mambo Diablo; Mulato Rumbero; El Elemento del Bronx; Yo Naci en Africa/Anabacoa.

Bobby Sanabria: Arsenio and Beyond

by Jack Bowers
June 9, 2026

Much of the music on Arsenio and Beyond was written by the trailblazing Cuban composer Arsenio Rodriguez, a master of the mandolin-like Cuban tres guitar who is credited among other innovations with creating the musical design that became known as son montuno. Rodriguez, drummer and bandleader Bobby Sanabria writes, was “the true Father of Mambo and ...