He is a 10-time Grammy winner, recipient of the Latin Grammys' Lifetime Achievement Award, and was honored at the Kennedy ...

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Havana that Cuban jazz — which Fidel Castro at one time tried to suppress— is becoming increasingly important in international music circles and to the island nation's ...

Starting in July, Oh! Jazz adds a window to Afro-Cuban rhythms and the vast talent of Cuban performers in collaboration with the awarded art center Fabrica de Arte Cubano. Fábrica de Arte Cubano (FAC) ...

Growing up in Havana in the 1970s violinist Ilmar Gavilán and his younger brother, pianist Aldo López-Gavilán, experienced music as a powerfully binding force. Playing and composing was a family ...

The Reno community and University of Nevada, Reno students had the opportunity to enjoy a series of events on Cuban jazz, music and culture with Daymé Arocena on April 7 and 8. The weekend of events ...

Just as American jazz musicians of the 1950s headed off to jam sessions following their last sets at clubs, Cuban musicians did the same in Havana. Between 1956 and 1964, musicians who dressed in ...

There’s a lot of live music to dig into for November, including a recent discovery who is helping to redefine Latin jazz. The Cuban expatriate pianist and composer Harold Lopez-Nussa has just released ...

Students filed into the Harold B. Lees Library's Reynolds Auditorium to experience Afro-Cuban culture and jazz. For decades, this style of music has formed the basis of Latin jazz in the United States ...

If the ground trembles a bit around the Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday, February 9, don’t blame the State Road 836 construction project down the street. With an as-of-now sold-out house and a trio of ...

HAVANA (AP) — Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, filling a concert hall in downtown Havana with a hypnotic form of ...

It's time for our monthly chat with Alt.Latino about Latin music, and Felix Contreras is with us. But Felix, this does not sound like Latin music. FELIX CONTRERAS, BYLINE: Hey, Rachel. Well, you know, ...

Last year’s CimaFest NOLA was a chance for Cimafunk to tie together a lot of his life and work. He had recently made New Orleans a new homebase, and he along with his band La Tribu and a stage full of ...