NEW ORLEANS — Last month, ten young people with the Trombone Shorty Foundation joined famous New Orleans musicians to perform at the Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba. The trip was designed to showcase New ...

Cándido Camero, the legendary Cuban conguero who pioneered the three-conga style and helped usher in a generation of Latin jazz, died peacefully at home in New York Saturday morning (November 7), NPR ...

Victor Campbell is not yet a household name here, but this rising Cuban piano player who moved to New Orleans in 2019 is ...

“It is hard to imagine contemporary Afro-Cuban percussion minus these three legendary congueros... The Conga Kings bears repeated listening just to comprehend the nuanced interplay of this unrivaled ...

Previously I have written about the differences between Afro-Cuban jazz and American jazz and examined the reasons why the descendants of the same African ancestors, living only 90 miles apart in the ...

For one more night, the papaya bar still beckons at the Conga Room in downtown L.A. The yellow sculptural design from Cuban American artist Jorge Pardo — meant to resemble the tropical fruit split ...

When Andy William landed in Nebraska a few years ago, the Cuban conga player had a mission -- put together a band and bring the music of his homeland to the Heartland. “It’s really important to ...

STILL COMPLICATED AS ERIKA MENTIONED EARLIER. ANTHONY: BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE FROM BOTH COUNTRIES PUSHING POLITICS ASIDE AND UNITING THROUGH MUSIC. ERIKA: CUBA IS AN ISLAND NATION FILLED WITH FERVOR, ...

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The pioneering Cuban percussionist Cándido Camero has died at age 99. Camero's grandson, Julian, told NPR member station WBGO that the Cuban conguero died peacefully at his home in New York on ...

For the first time since the Cuban conga (1938), it looks as though the U.S. is taking up a new ballroom dance. The new dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting ...