It was led by tres player Arsenio Rodríguez,[1] and launched the career of many important musicians in Cuban music.
The Orquesta Casino de la Playa recorded six numbers, and among this songs they performed a version of Arsenio Rodríguez' "Bruca maniguá".
In 1941, the director of the orchestra Anselmo Sacasas and the singer Miguelito Valdés abandoned the band and traveled to the United States to develop their own projects.
Further, Dámaso Pérez Prado played piano and arranged for the band for a short time until he left Cuba and settled in México, where he developed his own vision of mambo.
[citation needed] The Casino de la Playa orchestra can be considered as one of the first Cuban jazz bands.