The Peanut Vendor
Context
Recorded in New York on May 13, 1930 and released by RCA Victor in September, this son by Moisés Simons, sung by Antonio Machín, became the second biggest hit of the year in the United States. The first Cuban or Latin music record to exceed one million copies, it launched, according to the Library of Congress, a decade of "rumbamania." Louis Armstrong recorded it as early as 1931, the first version by an American jazz orchestra.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban. Among the origins and influences of Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban: Afro-diasporic roots, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).