The Big 3 Palladium Orchestra | World music

Barbican, LondonIn New York in the 50s, there was one place where Latin music fans just had to go: the Palladium Ballroom on West 53rd Street and Broadway. There, they could dance to the mambo, cha cha and rumba, and listen to the Mambo Kings – Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodríguez – the three legendary bandleaders who transformed the US music scene. The Palladium is long gone, but the big-band music that made it famous is back, ­courtesy of the Big 3 Palladium Orchestra, f...

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