Seldom does an interview begin with an exchange of screaming. Hello ... JORGE ... Can you hear me? WHERE ARE YOU? With the background din distorting his answer, Jorge ...

The music of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers serves as a suitable theme for this album by Jerry Gonzalez and his Latin jazz band, since they exhibit the same kind of percussive drive with ...

We all knew vocalist Rubén Blades knew his way around the clave, the rhythmic pattern that propels the Afro-Cuban dance music he's known for. But I bet you didn't know he could swing a big band jazz ...

For people who hear the word “rumba” and think of Ricky Ricardo leading his dinner-jacketed orchestra at the Copacabana on I Love Lucy, the music of Los Munequitos de Matanzas is likely to be either a ...

Congolese Rumba is the glorious musical hybrid of Cuban music fused with African DNA. It started back in the 1950s with a boatload of 78 rpm Cuban records featuring Arsenio Rodriguez, Orquesta Aragón, ...

Bandleader Edmundo Ros, who introduced wartime Britain to the percussive rhythm of the rumba, so capturing the nation’s imagination that its young princess chose his songs for her public dancing debut ...

Aldine-area resident Roy Chapa loves the energy he experiences at Houston's Fourth of July celebrations. "It's actually pretty cool," said Chapa, who will be returning this year to perform with La ...