Mambo takes after the musical encounter of Caribbean culture with North America and spread all over the dancing halls in the late Forties and Fifties. This CD belongs to the “Dance Master Classics” anthology, a collection of 20 discs compiled by specialists in each of dancing’s domains. Gathered here in almost exhaustive fashion for the very first time, this a panorama of the best titles in dancehistory, grouped by aesthetic form, follow one special guiding principle: to magnify the relationship between dancers and music. Noël HERVÉ & Patrick FRÉMEAUX