Behind the Scenes with the Band
Clip: Season 2024 Episode 3 | 6m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Go behind the scenes with the Mambo Legends Orchestra.
Go behind the scenes with the Mambo Legends Orchestra who committed to keeping the sounds of the great Afro-Cuban bandleaders Machito, Tito Puente, and Tito Rodriguez alive for future generations.
Behind the Scenes with the Band
Clip: Season 2024 Episode 3 | 6m 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Go behind the scenes with the Mambo Legends Orchestra who committed to keeping the sounds of the great Afro-Cuban bandleaders Machito, Tito Puente, and Tito Rodriguez alive for future generations.
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MEMBER: That sounds good.
(trumpet plays).
(trumpet plays).
(overlapping background chatter) CREW: Take it easy, man.
GIOVANNI: Va a hacer una hora.
(overlapping chatter).
Si.
CREW: Those are million-dollar hands.
GIOVANNI: Uh-huh.
Ok. Eh, papi!
A flat!
A sharp!
♪ JOE: I miss my friend, my dear, dear friend.
Had a lot of fun with him.
There isn't a day that doesn't go by that I don't wake up and I say (groan), I miss him.
A lot of fun.
JOSE: One two three four!
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (song ends) JOSE: Thank you very much.
GIOVANNI: Man.
B. Vamos.
Que hacemos?
Eat?
JOSE: Comer.
GIOVANNI: Ok, eat!
MEMBER: Eating time!
JOHNNY: I think the era that's ‘60s, late ‘50s, '60 up to the Palladium finish was the best for me musically.
We don't have that now because the music doesn't lend itself for that.
It's everything, it's written around the singer, and the band is kind of a background thing.
Before in Puente's band especially, the band was out there.
Bah!
The band was as much as the singer.
JOSE: One, two, three!
♪ ♪ (singing in Spanish) (vocalizing) ♪ Cuyi Cuyi Cuyi Cuyi (overlapping Spanish chatter) ♪ (speaking in Spanish) (laughter).
Introducing the Mambo Legends Orchestra
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Meet the Mambo Legends Orchestra, comprised of former members of the Tito Puente Orchestra. (6m 45s)
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