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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bobby Sanabria Drums, Akpwon, Morua Vocals; Wilson Chembo Corniel Congas; Roberto Quintero Bongo, Cencerro, Shekere; Hiram El Pavo Remon Maracas, Guiro Macho, Shekere, Vocals; John di Martino Piano; ...
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 ...