Buffalo Music Hall of Famer Wendell Rivera will turn up the heat at the Kenan Center’s Taylor Theatre in Lockport tonight when he performs Afro-Caribbean jazz and Tipico Puerto Rican music backed by ...

Carlos Santana fused rock and Latin rhythms, defying all odds to create a groundbreaking new genre. His electrifying ...

Just three percussion instruments – the conga, bongos and timbales – transform a big band into a Latin ensemble full of upbeat melodies and unexpected rhythms. The fusion occurs every Thursday night ...

Latin Bandleader Manny Oquendo, is a veteran of the days when Latin bands crowded into a studio to polish off a recording in an all-night session. Oquendo’s musical education consisted of the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A pair of thick, short wooden batons, one cupped in the hand to maximise resonance and struck by ...

Ralph Irizarry, who ranks among America’s best timbales players, has hands that seem large enough to be catcher’s mitts. His new band, Son Cafe, performed at SummerDance on Friday, and the group ...

The Tito Puente Latin Jazz Ensemble took the main stage at Musikfest’s Kunstplatz last night, and the steady rain stopped, if only for a moment. The rain didn’t stay away for long, but Puente’s ...

out in New York, where Palmieri lives when he is not in Puerto Rico. Rain is water, and water is life, he says. A clear sky means the planets must have stopped hovering near the Earth. said the ...

Buffalo Music Hall of Famer Wendell Rivera will turn up the heat at the Kenan Center’s Taylor Theatre on Saturday night when he performs Afro-Caribbean jazz and Tipico Puerto Rican music backed by his ...