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Arcaño y sus Maravillas was a Cuban charanga founded in 1937 by flautist Antonio Arcaño.Until its dissolution in 1958, it was one of the most popular and prolific danzón orchestras in Cuba, particularly due to the development of the danzón-mambo by its two main composers and musicians: Orestes López (piano, cello, bass) and his brother Israel López "Cachao" (bass). [1]
Antonio Arcaño Betancourt (Atarés, Havana 29 December 1911 – 1994) was a Cuban flautist, bandleader and founder of Arcaño y sus Maravillas, one of Cuba's most successful charangas. He retired from playing in 1945, but continued as director of the group until its dissolution in 1958.
Orestes López was born in Old Havana on August 28, 1908, into a family of musicians. [3] As a pre-teenager he studied piano, cello, violin and the five-key ebony flute. In 1924, at age 15, he became double bassist for the newly founded Havana Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Pedro Sanjuán. [3]
Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado.It originated as a syncopated form of the danzón, known as danzón-mambo, with a final, improvised section, which incorporated the guajeos typical of son cubano (also known as montunos).
Bandleader Antonio Arcaño was no longer performing on flute for health reasons, so Eulogio Ortiz played the flute parts. Like many other 1950s recordings by the Maravillas, this piece likely originated from an earlier composition from the period when Cachao and his brother Orestes composed most of the bands danzones (1937–1950).
Cachao settled in Madrid, where he joined Ernesto Duarte as a member of his orchestra, Orquesta Sabor Cubano. [ 7 ] [ 11 ] In Madrid, Cachao also performed with other artists such as Pérez Prado . [ 7 ] [ 9 ] One year later, in 1963, Cachao reunited with his wife in New York , where he played with Charlie Palmieri , José Fajardo , Tito ...
Antonio Arcaño (1911–1994), Cuban flautist and bandleader; Alfredo Arcaño (1868–?), Cuban baseball player This page was last edited on 7 June 2022, at 16: ...
Arsenio Rodríguez (born Ignacio Arsenio Travieso Scull; August 31, 1911 – December 30, 1970) [2] [3] was a Cuban musician, composer and bandleader. He played the tres, as well as the tumbadora, and he specialized in son, rumba and other Afro-Cuban music styles.