La India’s career began in the 1980s as a member of TKA before she rose to prominence as a solo artist. Her breakthrough came ...

Pablo Sanhueza presented his Orquesta Folklorica Experimental Latino Americana on Sept. 11. The ensemble includes graduates and aspprentices in the Latin Jazz Institute, and played a genre called ...

Picture a white sand beach, the shade of a palm-frond, crystal-blue skies and ocean, a citrus-flavored drink in hand, and a singer who slides up to the microphone in front of a group of top-flight ...

Latin percussionist, composer and bandleader Bobby Sanabria — whose most recent album, Big Band Urban Folktales, is the winner of a Jazz Journalists Association award for best Latin jazz album of 2008 ...

Well-informed historians and critics have stated that they believe jazz is America's only art form or its most important art form. Obviously, to music scholars and experts, most pop music derives from ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: Hello, I'm Murray Horwitz. You know, it's hard to believe that Tito Puente is no longer with us. When he passed away in April of 2000, he left quite an ...

Eddie Palmieri, La Perfecta during The 26th Annual Atlanta Jazz Festival - Day 2 at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (Photo by R. Diamond/WireImage) The world lost a giant of music.

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Dec. 27, 2023. Click here for that audio. Eddie Palmieri is one of the most renowned Latin jazz band leaders of the last century. The 10-time Grammy ...

From Mexico to Brazil, Latin American identity flows from a range of cultures, traditions, and most importantly, music. The diversity of Latin Artists can be heard in each measure of their music. Not ...