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 ...

For the Cuban timba group Tiempo Libre, a 2002 gig at Ravinia provided some needed encouragement. But the importance of the gig for the young musicians really hit home when bandleader Jorge Gomez met ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It all started with a coat hanger: “If they catch you, you have to pay,” says Jorge ...

Juanito “Long John” Oliva is probably best known to the wider music audience for his stirring percussion work with the guitar duo Strunz and Farah. But the Havana-born tumbador has surfaced in a ...

Timba, a Cuban cousin of Salsa is popular worldwide, but never really caught on in LA. That might be changing, if a hard-working Timba band keeps finding new fans. In the early 1990s, “Timba”, a new ...

Watch Tiempo Libre perform and you realize immediately that the Miami-based band, whose members are all from Cuba, is a fun-loving bunch. "We are young people playing young music," is how Jorge Gomez ...

After the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the onetime superpower could no longer provide much-needed resources like oil to Cuba. In this critical time, the Chinese government donated thousands of ...

On iQba, tenor saxophonist Carlos Averhoff Jr. employs a skilled quintet to provide dance-worthy renditions of a series of jazz classics plus an original ballad, all shaped by timba, one of the ...

Put on your dancing shoes. Pianist Cesar “Pupy” Pedroso is bringing one of the hippest and hottest bands in Cuba – Pupy y Los que Son Son – to Boston. Pedroso plays the Wilbur Theatre Tuesday, and his ...

Increasingly, the Cuban-emigre, Miami-based band Tiempo Libre’s name is starting to sound like a serious misnomer. After all, when exactly is this workaholic septet supposed to have “free time,” given ...

Tristan Butler y Timba Británica present: TIMBA REVOLUTION, The Golden Era of Cuban Salsa. In this 90 minute concert, 15 piece Cuban Salsa Orchestra - Timba Británica will play a selection of Cuba’s ...