{"id":191,"date":"2008-03-23T07:27:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T14:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/legendary-cuban-mambo-king-dies\/"},"modified":"2008-03-23T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T16:40:56","slug":"legendary-cuban-mambo-king-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/23\/legendary-cuban-mambo-king-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Cuban mambo king dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

from THE ASSOCIATED PRESS via NY Daily News<\/em><\/a>
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MIAMI<\/a> – Grammy-winning mambo pioneer Israel<\/a> (Cachao) Lopez<\/a> died Saturday at 89.<\/p>\n

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Known simply as Cachao, the Cuban-born bassist and composer fell ill in the past week and died surrounded by family members at Coral Gables Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cachao left his Communist homeland and came to the U.S.<\/a> in the early 1960s. He continued to perform into his late 80s, including a performance after the death of trombonist Generoso Jimenez<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n

Cuban-American actor Andy Garcia<\/a>, who made a 1993 documentary about Cachao’s career, credited him with being a major influence in Cuban musical history and said his passing marked the end of an era.<\/p>\n

“Cachao is our musical father. He is revered by all who have come in contact with him and his music,” Garcia said in a statement on Saturday. “Maestro … you have been my teacher, and you took me in like a son. So I will continue to rejoice with your music and carry our traditions wherever I go, in your honor.”<\/p>\n

Cachao was born in Havana<\/a> in 1918 to a family of musicians. A classically trained bassist, he began performing with the Havana symphony orchestra as a teenager, working under the baton of visiting guest conductors, such as Herbert von Karajan<\/a>, Igor Stravinsky<\/a> and Heitor Villa-Lobos<\/a>, during his nearly 30-year career with the orchestra.<\/p>\n

He and his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes Lopez, created the mambo in the late 1930s. The mambo emerged from their improvisational work with the danzon, an elegant musical style that lends itself to slow dancing.<\/p>\n

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from THE ASSOCIATED PRESS via NY Daily News MIAMI – Grammy-winning mambo pioneer Israel (Cachao) Lopez died Saturday at 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Cuban-born bassist and composer fell ill in the past week and died surrounded by family members at Coral Gables Hospital. Cachao left his Communist homeland and came to the U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}