| Percussionist Wilfredo "Freddy" Colon has performed with Aretha Franklin, Tito Puente, Soneros Del Barrio, Johnny Rivera, El Cano and Paquito Acosta, among others. He teaches percussion at the Eastman School's Community Education Division and is much in demand as a clinician in the Greater Rochester area. |
| Saxophonist John Viavattine has been an accomplished woodwind specialist in Rochester for many years. John has toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, including a performance at President Reagan's 1980 Inaugural Ball. He has also performed with Chuck and Gap Mangione, Jeff Tyzik and the Rochester Philhar- monic, The Temptations, Ray Charles, Patti Page and Lou Rawls. |
| Pianist and Musical Director Richard DeLaney has been active as an arranger and composer in Rochester since earning a Master's Degree from the Eastman School in 1978. He was musical director for Orquesta La Muralla for fifteen years before forming Mambo Kings in 1992. He has taught piano and jazz piano at the Hochstein School Of Music since 1985 and has directed the jazz ensemble program there since 2001. |
| Conguero David "Tio David" Antonetti played with Orquesta La Muralla for many years, including performances with Adalberto Santiago, Ismael Miranda and Ismael Quintana. He has backed up contemporary salsa stars Tito Allen, Cano Estremera, Hector Tricoche and Luisito Rosario. |
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| Bassist Hector Diaz has been playing with bands in the Western New York area since the age of thirteen. He has performed with ismael Miranda, Hector Tricoche, El Cano, Paquito Acosta, Zafra Negra, Luisito Rosario, Wendell Rivera and Johnny Rivera. While in the service, Hector toured with an All-Soldiers show through-out Army bases in South Korea. |
| Rochester's MAMBO KINGS, together since 1995, are enjoying great success as Upstate New York's foremost LatinJazz ensemble, and have rapidly earned a national reputation for their explosive blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz improvisation. Since their orchestral debut in 1997 with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Mambo Kings have appeared in Pops concerts with orchestras in Baltimore, Vancouver (BC), Detroit, Dallas, Naples (FL) and Portland (OR), among many others, performing original compositions and arrangements by pianist Richard DeLaney. |
| As a quintet, they have appeared as featured soloists at the 2003 and 2008 Rochester International Jazz Fests, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Music In The Mountains Festival in Colorado and the 2007 and 2009 Lewiston (NY) Jazz Fests. Mambo Kings released their third self-produced recording, Nostalgia , in July of 2008. Nostalgia, along with their previous releases -- Live! (2005) and Marinera (2003) -- continues to receive radio airplay in major markets throughout North America and Puerto Rico. |