RICHMOND, Va. -- The 17th annual Latin Jazz & Salsa Festival took place Saturday for the first time at Richmond's 17th Street Market. "Sweet" Louis Hidalgo, the "Voice of Latin Jazz," who created the ...

RICHMOND, Va. — People from across Central Virginia gathered to celebrate Latino culture at the 18th annual Latin Jazz & Salsa Festival held at Midtown Green in Richmond. The free event on Saturday ...

La India’s career began in the 1980s as a member of TKA before she rose to prominence as a solo artist. Her breakthrough came ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The 17th Annual Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival is this weekend in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom. On Saturday, Aug. 31 from noon to 8 p.m., the 17th Annual Latin Jazz and Salsa ...

Buffalo Music Hall of Famer Wendell Rivera will turn up the heat at the Kenan Center’s Taylor Theatre on Saturday night when he performs Afro-Caribbean jazz and Tipico Puerto Rican music backed by his ...

The region’s longest running Latin music festival is making a move. “It’s the 17th at the 17th,” says “Sweet” Lou Hidalgo, the founder and host of The Latin Jazz and Salsa Show Festival, an annual ...

Eddie Palmieri, a Grammy-winning pianist and bandleader who helped define Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. The famed musician died Wednesday, Aug. 6, according to Fania Records, a label responsible ...

It’s a sunny spring afternoon in south London and a selector is slamming down some of the slinkiest salsa cuts outside of San Juan. This is one of the hottest tickets in town, a party put on by ...

Earned 10 Grammy Awards in career spanning seven decades Remembered for percussive, dynamic piano style His music blended jazz, salsa, funk and soul sounds Made his musical debut at 11 with Carnegie ...

(AP) – Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. Fania Records announced Palmieri’s death Wednesday evening.

Bandleader and pianist Eddie Palmieri, whose pounding rhythms forged a new style for Latin music, died Wednesday at the age of 88. Fania Records, the renowned Latin jazz label that released several of ...