The Cuban quartet makes its Music of the Americas debut with a program featuring music by Mozart, Brouwer and Cuban composers ...

The Bay Area has been a hotbed for Cuban music for more than half a century, and despite the persistent cold war freeze on relations with the communist-ruled nation, the temperature here keeps rising.

NEW ORLEANS — Last month, ten young people with the Trombone Shorty Foundation joined famous New Orleans musicians to perform at the Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba. The trip was designed to showcase New ...

Reggaeton is one of the most popular genres amongst Cuban youth. Dec. 6, 2012— -- Cuba will punish musicians whose songs refer explicity to sexual acts or objectify women and ban such material ...

Music has always had a powerful influence on Cuban culture. Its unique blend of West African and European styles has made Cuba one of the richest and most influential music regions in the world. But ...

Historic Panart Records sessions have been remastered and collected in a new five volume set. The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions were recorded at various locations around Havana from 1956 to 1964 for the ...

José Luis Cortés, "one of the most important figures in contemporary Cuban music," died on April 18 in Havana, Cuba per the Instituto Cubano de la Música Jack Irvin has over five years of experience ...

The late Don Gonzalo Fernández (1930-?) is sadly not that well-known today, and as I discovered in preparing this post, very little information is available about him online. He left Cuba for Paris in ...

A politically charged hip-hop song has become the backdrop for the civil unrest that has rocked Cuba this summer. Also Read:Biden backs protesters in Cuba, urges communist leaders to ‘hear’ their ...

Saxophonist, flautist and bandleader Jane Bunnett has been traveling back and forth between her home in Toronto and Cuba for over 30 years because, well, she can. Canadians, and everyone else in the ...

Last year, Global Cuba Fest’s 13th edition certainly proved to be unlucky. “We were on top of the Citadel dancing our butts off to Sol and the Tribu. It was March 11,” remembers Beth Boone, the ...