A new Latin jazz ensemble for youth, Nuestro Tiempo, will be free through JazzArts Charlotte, but auditions are required. JazzArts Charlotte has long made an effort to inspire the city's youngest ...
Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.
The Michigan Jazz Festival's annual spring fundraiser will take place on Sunday, April 13, at Schoolcraft College in Livonia. The fundraiser will feature the Latin jazz group Aguankó, and proceeds ...
In January 2004, Cleveland jazz musician/band leader/educator Roberto Ocasio died in an auto accident on an icy day, leaving the Cleveland music community and the local Puerto Rican community bereft.
The 2025 GRAMMY nominations are here and we're going to help you to untangle it all right up until the big event, continuing with the Best Latin Jazz Album and Best Alternative Jazz Album categories.
It is easy to get stuck doing the same things every week but with many free possibilities for live music this week, it is easy to get out and do something. Wallace is a professor of practice in jazz ...
A concert at Town Hall this week that will be led by Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra celebrates the legacies of Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Chico O’Farrill. By Ed Morales In the ...
Eddie Palmieri, a Grammy-winning pianist and bandleader who helped define Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. The famed musician died Wednesday, Aug. 6, according to Fania Records, a label responsible ...
Bandleader and pianist Eddie Palmieri, whose pounding rhythms forged a new style for Latin music, died Wednesday at the age of 88. Fania Records, the renowned Latin jazz label that released several of ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Many music artists are making up for lost time after taking a pause from live music during the COVID-19 pandemic. That's certainly the case for Pavel Polanco-Safadit, a high-energy ...
Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening. Palmieri’s ...