The Last Mambo
About The Last Mambo
San Francisco Bay Area salsa and Latin jazz performers and audiences struggle to maintain culture, creativity and community in the face of powerful socioeconomic and demographic changes. This fascinating history of the Bay Area Latin music scene explores the post-WWII growth of California’s multi-ethnic music community, the 1950s Mambo craze, the 70s heyday of Salsa, and subsequent expansions of t…
Reginald Brown and Rita Hargrave directed The Last Mambo, a 2020 documentary film. Michael DeLorenzo plays Narrator.
It runs 55 minutes and was released in January 2020. Written by Reginald Brown and Rita Hargrave.