Jazz musicians have long mined Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and even pop music for material. Here are five Latin interpretations of songs written by jazz musicians, a process that isn't as ...
Recently, radio host Ayana Contreras went to Cuba to dig into a rhythm known as clave. She says clave is essentially a "five-beat rhythmic structure and it's the backbone of a lot of Latin music forms ...
"The bass is an instrument that in one word describes itself," says Israel "Cachao" Lopez, a virtuoso Cuban bassist considered the grandfather of salsa -- and creator of the mambo. "We're the depth of ...