HELP – Don’t forget about us ! A very talented singer-songwriter from Hartford, Eddie Rivera, wrote a deeply moving song...

I Will Survive – “I Will Survive” – A Charanga-Jazz Encounter In the late 1990’s, one of the more ambitious...

Son Charanga In 2002, at a memorial for Mauricio Smith—a great musician and dear friend—I ran into the accomplished flautist...

Cuchi-frito The Night Latin Cool Was Born  “from the book Mambo City by Bobby Marin” I received a call one...

Fuego Al Barrio It was the winter of 1966 when my songwriting partner, Louie Ramirez, and I dropped by the...

Extracto del libro “Mambo City” de Bobby Marin Un dia en el anõ 1966 me reuní con Al Santiago en...

Excerpt from the book, Mambo City, by Bobby Marin: One rainy night, while walking down a street in the Bronx,...