DID PEOPLE DANCE MAMBO AT THE SAVOY BALLROOM, WORLD FAMOUS HOME OF LINDY HOP?
I think they had Mambo at the Savoy on Tuesday night and also at the Renaissance Ballroom, Roseland Ballroom and the Rockland Palace. There were Black people and all kinds of people going to the Savoy to dance “Latin”. Once a week the Savoy would have both a Black jazz band like Duke Ellington or Dizzy Gillespie and a Latin band. I think it was on Tuesday nights WHAT KIND OF LATIN MUSIC DO YOU LIKE NOWADAYS? I love Adalberto Alvarez and many of the Cuban bands. I am a Cuban fanatic. But the new Cuban bands are not playing the old style of music—the music I grew up with. Even in Cuba they are not playing a lot of the older music. I hear that a lot of people in Cuba are very upset about that. I read an article in Latin Beat magazine about a fellow who went to Cuba to see charanga bands. He was there about 2 weeks and he could not find any Charanga music. I have videos of some of the famous charanga bands like Arcano, Orquesta Aragon and Chappotin. Ernie Ensley continues to teach and perf
