Press kit, Mambo Cadillac · Press kit, official use
Mambo Cadillac Featuring Carlos Cascante and Julio Jauregui Seattle area percussionist/vocalist/composer Tor Dietrichson founded the band Tor Dietrichson with Mambo Cadillac in April of 2005. Since then the band has gone on to perform 300 plus concerts. The band has performed more times at The Triple Door Musicquarium than any other band, 100+, maybe 200 times, and also at Bumbershoot and twice headlined the 4Culture website launch party. They received a grant from 4Culture to record a CD of his original Latin compositions which will be released soon. Mambo Cadillac is his fourth Latin music ensemble. When he saw an opportunity to perform at the beautiful Triple Door Musicquarium in April of 2005, Dietrichson founded Mambo Cadillac after some coaxing from two of the absolute best of the Seattle Latin music scene - Costa Rican vocalist Carlos Cascante, who is a Grammy award winning vocalist with the world famous Spanish Harlem Orchestra, and Mexican pianist Julio Jauregui. Carlos Cascante had been telling Dietrichson that he needed to start another band as it was his calling to be a bandleader and he needed to resume what he had started years ago both as a percussionist and a composer of various types of songs. Tor rounded up some of his other favorite musicians including percussionist Francisco Medina Jr. and bassist Dean Schmidt. Mambo Cadillac at times features various horn players and other guest percussionists and singers. Some of the horn players who have contributed are sax/flutist Jim Coile, trumpeter Thomas Marriot, trombonist Doug Beavers (from Eddie Palmieri’s band) and many others. Tor has been a member of many Seattle area bands with a list almost too numerous to mention.
