Paquito D’Rivera has been a major figure in the worlds of modern jazz, afro cuban jazz, big band jazz ... He started by displaying his first-ever instrument, the very same curved Bb flat soprano ...

Mulatu Astatke struggled for decades before his name became associated worldwide with a musical genre and he was finally born ...

His cool, shimmering, jazz vibes, gliding fluidly atop fiery, hot Afro-Cuban rhythms, made for a sonic signature ... Cal Tjader mentioned alongside the all-time greats on his instrument. He is not ...

a Cuban drum, he created a unique musical blend in the 1960s, a mix of traditional Ethiopian music, funk brass, Afro-beat, and Latin jazz. "Ethio-jazz is a musical genre which puts the whole world ...

The Uptown Rhythm Festival will mix styles, including tap, swing and flamenco, that are flourishing despite problems of rehearsal and performance space.

NMU Vocal Music Instructor Rebecca Patterson is attending the Havana Jazz Festival ... “String instruments figure quite importantly in Cuban music, especially Afro-Cuban music where they borrow ...

A gifted musician, author and poet of Dominican and Puerto Rican heritage, Tanama Colibri will present “Recorrido: A ...

Tickets went on sale Friday for Jazz Aspen Snowmass ... a performance from the Cuban musician sensation Cimafunk, known for mixing funk and hip hop with Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music.

Although the rent increase threatens the future of the bar at the intersection of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, its owner is ...

which specialized in the Afro-Cuban styles that dominated Dakar clubs, and then fronted the break-away Étoile de Dakar, mixing in traditional rhythms and instruments, with vocals largely in the ...

There must be 150 drums and other percussion instruments in the wonderful ... It was Ortiz, a Cuban anthropologist and a pioneer in Afro-Cuban studies, who brought the African origins of Cuban ...