Well-informed historians and critics have stated that they believe jazz is America's only art form or its most important art form. Obviously, to music scholars and experts, most pop music derives from ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: Hello, I'm Murray Horwitz. You know, it's hard to believe that Tito Puente is no longer with us. When he passed away in April of 2000, he left quite an ...

Picture a white sand beach, the shade of a palm-frond, crystal-blue skies and ocean, a citrus-flavored drink in hand, and a singer who slides up to the microphone in front of a group of top-flight ...

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 ...

A Harlem-born New York original, the percussionist, composer and bandleader helped define Latin jazz and lay the groundwork for 1970s salsa. By Ed Morales Ernest Anthony Puente, known as Tito, was ...

Music written by Ary Barroso in 1939 and released by Walt Disney in 1942 with English translations by Bob Russell. Part of Gerard Behague and Everett Helm Latin American Sheet Music Collection at the ...

See some of the top outdoor concerts across NYC's five boroughs from 7/6 to 7/12 with celebrations of Afro-Carribbean music, ...

Eddie Palmieri, the Grammy-winning Nuyorican pianist, bandleader and composer who helped innovate Afro-Caribbean music in the States and transform the New York salsa scene, died on Wednesday. He was ...

The pioneering Cuban percussionist Cándido Camero has died at age 99. Camero's grandson, Julian, told NPR member station WBGO that the Cuban conguero died peacefully at his home in New York on ...