Victor Campbell is not yet a household name here, but this rising Cuban piano player who moved to New Orleans in 2019 is ...
CHICAGO --It was one year ago this week that the U.S. began restoring diplomatic ties with Cuba, severed a half century ago. That historic moment led to a musical breakthrough for an ensemble of young ...
NEW YORK-- A group of high school music students from Cuba made history this week when they performed in New York City. It was a musical event that was years in the making and they made the most of ...
Bobby Carcasses is a singer, trumpeter, pianist, conguero and connector in Cuban jazz. As a bandleader, big-band sideman and a founder of the first jazz festival in Cuba, in 1980, he's spent his ...
Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) invites audiences to celebrate its 25th anniversary and experience the beloved holiday ...
Daymé Arocena is a singing drum. Her mouth blooms a litany of ethereal chants, a sacred devotion as impeccable as her white assembles against her molasses skin—traditional garb in the Afro-Cuban ...
People often ask, “Scotty: what is Latin Jazz? What is Cuban Jazz?” There’s no pat and easy answer. What has come to be known as Latin Jazz might have had its earliest incarnation in some rhythms and ...
In 1917, Ramon Santamaria Rodriquez was born into poverty in Havana, Cuba. Nicknamed “Mongo” (a tribal chief in Senegal), he began playing the conga drum at an early age and as a teen, Mongo ...
Since Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo birthed "Manteca" in the '40s just as Cuban musicians like Machito were shaking up New York's jazz scene, Afro-Cuban jazz has continued to entice and fascinate ...
Insight Cuba, which launched cultural/educational tours to Cuba in August, added a departure so travelers can attend the 27th annual Havana International Jazz Festival Festival, Dec. 15-18. The ...
MIAMI — Who would have thought the fusion of musical elements from Africa, Europe and the U.S. in the early 20th century would eventually produce the intricate sounds of what is known as Latin Jazz ...
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