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Isora Club
A danzón named for a Havana social club. The Cuban composer Coralia López wrote ‘Isora Club’ in the 1940s, and the charangas kept it alive — Orquesta...
Open in the interactive experienceA danzón named for a Havana social club. The Cuban composer Coralia López wrote ‘Isora Club’ in the 1940s, and the charangas kept it alive — Orquesta Aragón's flute-and-violin reading foremost among them — before the bass master Israel ‘Cachao’ López folded it into his descarga sessions. Cool, swaying and unhurried: the sound of the ballroom before the mambo sped everything up.
- Composer
- Coralia López
- Year
- 1946
- Lineage
- danzón-cha-cha