The book, about two brothers from Havana who start a mambo band in New York, went on to win a Pulitzer Prize.

He imitates cars, trains, traffic and the various instruments in a mambo band playing "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White."

When I was about 12, I went to a dance in the neighborhood and there was a mambo band playing 1960's songs.

Among other musicians he worked with, he played with Machito's mambo band, when he developed a love for Latin music.

Patterns 3 and 4 are timbale bell parts that were introduced in mambo big bands.

Some bands are expanded to the size of a mambo big band, but they can be thought of as an enlarged conjunto.

In that story two Cuban brothers move to New York in the 50's and form a mambo band; Mr. Puente is portrayed as the King, the center of the mambo universe.

There were floats carrying mambo bands and smiling teenage beauty queens wearing formal gowns and tiaras.

The timbales virtuoso Tito Puente with his propulsive mambo band, and accordion-driven vallenata music from Colombia by the Macondos.

February 2012 saw Bruce playing in Havana, Cuba, along with guitarist Phil Manzanera, supporting the mambo band of Augusto Enriquez.