The infinitely inventive double bassist and mambo and Latin jazz pioneer Israel Lopez -- Cachao -- would have turned 100 years old today (Sept. 14). By Judy Cantor-Navas The infinitely inventive ...

Israel "Cachao" López, the pre-eminent Cuban bassist, who has died in Miami aged 89, ranks among the 20th-century's most remarkable musicians; his supple rhythms and fluid melodies helped develop ...

In the formidable legacy of Cuban music, no one is more important than quintessential bassist, Israel ‘Cachao’ López. Born in 1918 into a family of highly respected, classically trained musicians and ...

MIAMI — Cuban bassist and composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had fallen ill in ...

At 89 years of age, Israel "Cachao Lopez continues to perform the mambo, the Afro-Cuban rhythm that he helped create with his late brother, multi-instrumentalist Orestes Lopez; a genre that gained ...

Seven new compositions by Cuban great Israel López -- the influential Cuban bassist best known as Cachao -- will be performed by an all-star band at a tribute concert in Miami. By Judy Cantor-Navas ...

“Cachao was the center of the musical universe in Cuba!” exclaims producer and Latin music historian Rene Lopez about bassist and composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez. Lopez is a Latin-music consultant for ...

Cuban bassist Israel "Cachao" Lopez, a father of the mambo before Perez Prado made it famous in the 1950s, is still searching for new ideas. Famous for revolutionising Cuban music by mixing vibrant ...

It's a cliché to say that any one man is largely responsible for a large part of modern music. But in the case of Israel "Cachao" Lopez—the Cuban-born, Miami-based bassist, composer and bandleader, ...