Planned concert featuring Cuban legends Chucho Valdes and Arturo Sandoval changed directions after Valdes’ cancellation.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This drum set was made by Latin ...

His career spanned 60 years and dozens of albums and had been named among the most influential Latino artists of all time.

Andy Beta's new book Cosmic Music traces the spiritual and musical history of one of jazz's true outliers, Alice Coltrane ...

Demasiado Caliente Drummer Cal Tjader along with Paul Desmond and Dick Collins was a founder member of Dave Brubeck’s ...

Combining groove with a sense of songcraft, drummers are the driving force of any group. Here we present the best female drummers of all time. Another jazz innovator whose work is largely lost to ...

There, he formed the Santana Blues Band in 1966, blending blues guitar with Afro-Cuban percussion instruments like congas and timbales that were rarely heard in rock music. Concert promoter Bill ...