Mambo king Tito Puente will be the focus point of a three-day conference at the Bronx’s Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture. According to Billboard, “Tito Puente: A 50-Year Retrospective of El Rey” ...

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It has been a year since the death of New York’s beloved Mambo King, but the legacy of Tito Puente lives on. In the last year, the city has dubbed a section of E. 110th St. in East Harlem Tito Puente ...

Many music fans enjoy a time-machine fantasy where they are transported back to a famous dance club of the past. For some, it's Studio 54 or the Fillmore, but for me, the first choice would be New ...

It was billed as a concert celebration, but ”marathon” might have been a more accurate term for the nearly four-hour show at the Chicago Theatre over the weekend. Several of the foremost names in ...

It’s been business as usual for the Tito Puente Orchestra despite the recent loss of their beloved bandleader. Any speculation that Puente’s Latin jazz/tropical music ensemble would dissolve after his ...

The legendary Tito Puente did it all: He was a percussionist, a bandleader, a songwriter, and a producer responsible for some of the most renowned mambo, Latin jazz, and salsa classics in music ...

As Brown explains, Tito Puente (1923–2000) made music his entire life, from banging “spoons and forks on pots and pans, windowsills and cans,” to learning the saxophone while serving in the Navy ...