The word “clave” refers to the round hardwood stick used as a percussion instrument in tropical latin music (Afro-Cuban, salsa, merengue, cha cha, etc.). It looks a little like a hot dog without the ...

Pianist Omar Sosa’s appearance at the Jazz Bakery this week is subtitled “The Soul of Cuban Jazz.” But that’s a label that only partly describes the kaleidoscopic sounds and rhythms surging from the ...

Mark Cuban dio unos consejos de primera a unos escolares de Texas, explicándoles la «clave» para crear una empresa de éxito. Cuban es ahora multimillonario gracias a sus habilidades empresariales, que ...

Cuban drummer Rafael Monteagudo recently released an instructional video, Clave in Modern Drum Set Playing. This is the first in a series of videos that incorporates African and Afro-Cuban rhythms, ...

You may remember that whole Most Important Albums of the Decade discussion we had last week here at A Blog Supreme, in reference to the All Songs Considered feature. This half-week, the bloggers ...

Jazz musicians have long mined Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and even pop music for material. Here are five Latin interpretations of songs written by jazz musicians, a process that isn't as ...

Ruta de la Clave, the highly anticipated debut album from Juno-winning Cuban-Canadian percussionist, composer, producer, and bandleader Joaquin Nuñez, is the result of five years of creative ...

La inteligencia artificial ha dejado de ser un concepto futurista para convertirse en un fenómeno que transforma la economía, la educación y el mercado laboral. Profesiones relacionadas con la ...

In Dizzy Gillespie’s autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop, someone asked Chano Pozo, the Black Cuban conguero whose ’40s collaborations with the trumpeter gave birth to modern Latin jazz, how he and ...

From Bebeshito to Wampi, meet some of the gems behind el reparto scene. By Jessica Roiz Assistant Editor, Latin Gente de Zona became the first Cuban duo to sell out the coveted Kaseya Center in Miami ...