When the kids in Havana want to go out dancing, it isn’t the throwback tunes of the Buena Vista Social Club pensioners that get the floor shaking. Besides the rapidly burgeoning Cuban hiphop scene, ...

The Cuban music form known as timba developed in the 1980s, but exploded in popularity throughout the '90s. While training in jazz and classical conservatories, many Cuban musicians were looking for a ...

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 ...

There was history in the air Tuesday night when one of the giants of Cuban music, Cesar “Pupy” Pedroso, led his powerhouse band Los que Son Son into Boston for the first time. Besides bringing 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 ...

In Cuba, the seven young men studied at the National School of Arts where music was their passion. They always knew that someday they would continue the tradition of their musical roots even as they ...

He was trained in the classics and jazz, but he helped popularize a new, danceable genre known as timba. By Neil Genzlinger José Luis Cortés, a Cuban musician who with his popular band, NG La Banda, ...