His cool, shimmering, jazz vibes, gliding fluidly atop fiery, hot Afro-Cuban rhythms, made for a sonic signature that ... he was respected for his mainstream drumming. Pianist Hank Jones told me that ...

Acclaimed Afro-Cuban jazz pianist Elio Villafranca is set to take the stage Saturday at Prior-Jollek Hall on the Antilles ...

Bembé Drum & Dance, a community-based ... “We work with everything that is Afro-Puerto Rican, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Colombian, Afro-Mexican, etc.,” said Beto Torrens, Bembé’s resident artist ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

George Gershwin called one of his early classic songs, first created by Fred and Adele Astaire, “Fascinating Rhythm”. It was ...

Weedie Braimah is a djembefola (a master of the djembe drum), and a force of nature. Born in Ghana and raised in East St. Louis by two world-class drummers, his father Ghanaian and his mother American ...

The talking drum became his trademark ... Next up, "Adura" dives into a percussive Afro-Cuban groove, setting the stage for a party that is only just beginning. The track "Witchdoctor," with its ...

World-jazz-folk ensemble Joellen Lapidus & the Urban Gypsies perform at Boulevard Music at the weekend, so band leader Joellen Lapidus told the News about what they have in store for Culver City… When ...

The Chilean song stylist Claudia Acuna has infused her native Latina uniqueness to this music since her debut album “Wind from the South”.

where the beat evolved into the rumba clave crucial to Afro-Cuban music. Back home, the rhythm would have been played on a drum. But the plantation owners, fearful of their forced laborers sending ...

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Jader Bignamini release a new recording of Pulitzer Prize and ...