The first band playing is named 'Timbuk Two plus 3', a play on both the city Timbuktu in Mali, and the name of Firehouse Five Plus Two, a Dixieland jazz band made up of Disney animators, artists, writers and musicians.
The film Kismet (1955) had been released in 1955, so all things from the mysterious lands of sultans were in vogue.
The film was directed by Ken Harris and is the only classic era Yosemite Sam short which was not directed by either Friz Freleng or someone in Freleng's production unit.
Cuadrillas is Spanish for the team of a matador's assistants, including picadors and banderilleros. But Bugs appears as an actual matador.