This 1973 record from Ray Barretto was a natural response to more or less being abandoned by his once tight-knit jazz players. Barretto transitioned from jazz to salsa and managed to put together a ...

A salsa album has long been on Sheila E.’s “bucket list,” she explains, but she says she was always aware of how challenging the genre could be. “I grew up playing Latin jazz with my father, but salsa ...

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Salsa-music legend Rubén Blades is having a moment — several moments, actually — a full four years after the conclusion of his “Caminando, adiós y gracias” (“Walking, good-bye and thanks”) farewell ...

Ruben Blades was never one to run with the herd — especially when it came to his music. After nearly 50 years as a salsa icon whose career was forged on complex, socially conscious compositions that ...

How does one reinvent salsa, a universally beloved and traditional music genre? That’s the question that 34-year-old salsero Luis Figueroa keeps asking himself. From touring the world with Romeo ...

Puerto Rican salsa crooner Gilberto Santa Rosa now has a Guinness World Record to his name. “The Gentleman of Salsa” broke the record for the most albums to reach the No. 1 spot on the Billboard ...

1. I've Got You Under My Skin 2. New York, New York 3. I Get a Kick Out of You 4. Fly Me To the Moon 5. Witchcraft 6. All Of Me 7. Without a Song 8. The Rumba Dancer 9. Guaguanco For J-Lo ("My Kind Of ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer and composer behind the Broadway hit "Hamilton," has collaborated with playwright Eisa Davis to create a new concept album, inspired by the 1979 cult classic film, "The ...

“Music means more to me now than ever,” said Latin-jazz master Eddie Palmieri, who in his early days was known as Pancho Rompetecla (“Pancho The Key Breaker”) because of his explosive piano style. Now ...

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Nora Suzuki is a Japanese woman born in Nakano-ku (Tokyo) who deeply appreciates and understands salsa music and Latine ...