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 ...

Tata Guines, one of the most important percussionists on the tumbadora, or conga drum, in the first generation of Afro-Cuban jazz and son montuno, died Monday in Havana, where he lived. He was 77. The ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

The Oyu Oro Experimental Dance Ensemble returns to New Orleans courtesy of the Ashe Cultural Center, presenting two nights of Afro-Cuban dancing with conga drums and other percussion. Oyu Oro, loosely ...

What: Vail Jazz joins Vail Symposium to present professor Michael Davison and members of Afro-Cuban band ¡Cubanismo! in a performance and demonstration of the fundamentals of Afro-Cuban jazz. Where: ...

Tata Guines, 77, a conga drummer who helped popularize Afro-Cuban rhythms worldwide, died Monday outside Havana after being hospitalized for hypertension and kidney problems. Known as the “King of the ...

“It is hard to imagine contemporary Afro-Cuban percussion minus these three legendary congueros... The Conga Kings bears repeated listening just to comprehend the nuanced interplay of this unrivaled ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - "King of the Congas" Tata Guines, Cuba's most famous percussionist who shared the stage with Josephine Baker and Frank Sinatra half a century ago, died on Monday in Havana. He was ...

The death of Cuban conga master Carlos "Patato" Valdes this past December provides a sad opportunity to dig out one of his best-known recordings — which also happens to be a groundbreaking piece of ...

Cándido Camero, the legendary Cuban conguero who pioneered the three-conga style and helped usher in a generation of Latin jazz, died peacefully at home in New York Saturday morning (November 7), NPR ...

Last week we lost another Cuban music pioneer. Percussionist Francisco Aguabella died of cancer May 7 at his home in Los Angeles. Aguabella was one of a handful of Cuban congueros who made their way ...