Gillespie and Machito Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods The elements of music to consider Performing and composing ideas The impact of Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods ...

Other jazz performers were trying to experiment with music originating from around the world. Charlie Parker (saxophonist) and Machito recorded the Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite album in 1950, and pianist ...

Adam O’Farrill is the scion of one of the great Latin jazz dynasties. Yet he never felt the need to confine himself to that ...

Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena smiles during an interview ... Riding on the heels of her latest album “Alkemi,” Afro-Cuban ...

Kenny Dorham: trumpet. Jay Jay Johnson: trombone (1-5). Hank Mobley: tenor sax. Cecil Payne: baritone sax. Horace Silver: piano. Percy Heath (6-9), Oscar Pettiford (1 ...

A Hartford, Connecticut, native has been nominated for a Grammy award in the Latin Jazz category. Zaccai Curtis's album ...

Carlos Sarduy plays the standards and classics of Latin rhythms from Rumba to Son, adding his own inimitable touch with ...

Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz, as well as a Detroit favorite who headlined the 2022 Detroit Jazz Festival as artist ...

Panamanian singer-songwriter Rubén Blades has signed a global partnership with Virgin Music Group, Billboard has learned. The ...

The renowned Cuban singer, Omara Portuondo, marks her 94th birthday this Tuesday. Recently, she made the pivotal decision to ...

Explosive Salsa, Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music from the classics to the latest. Hosted by Luis Medina.

Musicians have a wide array of options to showcase their musical talents in one of our five choral groups, two large bands, a jazz orchestra, a symphony orchestra ... a variety of musical styles and ...