José CURBELO and his orchestra

... was a Cuban-born American pianist and manager. He was also a key figure in Latin jazz in New York City in the 1940s.

 
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• 1939 he moved to New York.
• early in the 1940s he played in the ensembles of Xavier Cugat, Juancito Sanabria, José Morand.
• 1942 he founded his own ensemble.
• 1959 he disbanded the group and took up managing and founding an agency for Latin musicians called Alpha Artists
• He died in 2012 in Aventura, Florida.

Curbelo wrote unforgettable songs like:

  - La Familia (1946)

  - La Runidera (1946)

  - Sun Sun Babae (1952)