“Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mambo Number Five…” someone else commented. “I swear to God when I used to open for the produce department at 5 a.m., the playlist would be exactly the same ...

The Last Mambo explores the San Francisco Bay Area’s (SFBA) Latin music scene. In the 1930’s musicians of color played in racially segregated areas. The 1950’s Mambo craze and integration ...