In his column this week, Jeff Weiss talks with renowned conga player Poncho Sanchez about the unlikely gringo who put him on. Today we've got another Sanchez story about an even stranger encounter — ...

Ray Barretto, the towering Puerto Rican percussionist who straddled the occasionally conflicting worlds of salsa and Latin jazz during a career that spanned more than half a century, died Friday. He ...

The animated fans at Grazie’s applauded enthusiastically Saturday night as Jim Coile finished a gorgeous flute solo on the Brazilian ballad, “Manha De Carnaval,” and the conga player launched into a ...

PORT JERVIS - Emedin Rivera has played conga drums and percussion around the world, whether funk and soul, jazz, Afro-Irish or background music for a wolf documentary. He has played with Larry Coryell ...

Cuban percussionist Miguel “Anga” Diaz, an acclaimed conga master who perfected a dazzling five-drum technique with a versatility that allowed him to span genres from progressive jazz to traditional ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This drum was made by Latin ...

"I'm the very first local bongo player, conga player, and timbales player . . . Nobody played those before me." So says the veteran entertainer Freeman 'King' Trott. Young Freeman heard the music of ...