Bauzá, Mario

As a teenager, Bauzá began his musical career playing the oboe and bass clarinet in the Havana Philharmonic , which performed mostly Broadway show tunes for Cuba's high society. He also joined the all-teenage orchestra, Jovenes de Redencion. There he met and formed a long-term partnership with Rául Grillo (known as “ Machito ”), who was singing and playing the maracas in the orchestra. Longing for something more lively, the young Bauzá left the group and started playing the clarinet...