The Beatles kept up a very prolific recording pace throughout their time together in the ’60s. Even when they gave themselves a little breathing room between records, they pushed the pedal to the ...

Story: From the archives, we pay tribute to three legendary conga players, Mongo Santamaria, Carlos “Patato” Valdez, and Ray Barreto. All three musicians have passed away, but their musical styles ...

These guys are the undisputed kings of conga. All three of the main players are the undisputed kings of Afro-Cuban drumming. They are Candido Camerera (the old master who can still belt them out with ...

Previously I have written about the differences between Afro-Cuban jazz and American jazz and examined the reasons why the descendants of the same African ancestors, living only 90 miles apart in the ...

Candido Camero, a Cuban musician who helped find new expressive directions for conga drumming, providing dynamic rhythmic accents to jazz and other forms of music, died Nov. 7 at his home in New York ...