The Beatles kept up a very prolific recording pace throughout their time together in the ’60s. Even when they gave themselves a little breathing room between records, they pushed the pedal to the ...

The conga drum produces one of the most unique percussive sounds found in traditional songs from around the world, to today's most popular music. If you want to experiment with percussive sounds but ...

Ralph Irizarry, a master of the timbales who played in groups led by conga player Ray Barretto and singer Ruben Blades before forming his own well-regarded bands, died Sept. 5 in a hospital in the New ...

PORT JERVIS - Emedin Rivera has played conga drums and percussion around the world, whether funk and soul, jazz, Afro-Irish or background music for a wolf documentary. He has played with Larry Coryell ...

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 ...

Of the 60 or so musical numbers from Enchanted performed on last night’s show, Kristin Chenoweth singing “That’s How You Know” was notable, not for its rote-ness (it is a rule, for instance, that ...

The Canelita Sabrosa band releases self-titled debut album. *“I want to keep the style of what’s coming next,” said conga player Chris Nettuno about his band Canelita Sabrosa’s music, heard on their ...

Not that many people know that Marlon Brando was a huge tropical latin music fan. Herman Leonard, the great jazz photographer knew that, and he and Brando became close because they were both ...

A colleague said Mr. Irizarry, who played timbales with Ray Barretto and Rubén Blades and led his own bands, expanded the instrument’s possibilities “to the nth degree.” By Richard Sandomir Ralph ...