A new Latin jazz ensemble for youth, Nuestro Tiempo, will be free through JazzArts Charlotte, but auditions are required. JazzArts Charlotte has long made an effort to inspire the city's youngest ...

The guitar and its close relatives play an essential role throughout the Latin music world. Traditional Peruvian music places the guitar as its primary harmonic instrument. The Brazilian bossa nova ...

The jazz world has never given the flute the star status enjoyed by the saxophone or trumpet. There's a precedent for the instrument's presence; several musicians have taken the instrument to ...

Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening. Palmieri’s ...

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 ...

In 1917, Ramon Santamaria Rodriquez was born into poverty in Havana, Cuba. Nicknamed “Mongo” (a tribal chief in Senegal), he began playing the conga drum at an early age and as a teen, Mongo ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In a practice room at UNO’s School of Music, adjunct instructor Oscar Rossignoli melodically hits piano keys without any sheet music to read from or even notes that he memorized.

There was quiet chatter in Buskirk-Chumley Theatre. Most of the seats on both levels of the theatre were filled. The stage was littered with chairs and instruments, both waiting for their companions.

Bobby Montez, 67, a West Coast Latin jazz pioneer of the 1950s and early ‘60s, died Jan. 8 at an assisted living facility in Chico, Calif. Cause of death was liver failure. Born in Sonora, Ariz., ...

Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri's death Wednesday evening. Palmieri’s ...