The word “clave” refers to the round hardwood stick used as a percussion instrument in tropical latin music (Afro-Cuban, salsa, merengue, cha cha, etc.). It looks a little like a hot dog without the ...

Jazz musicians have long mined Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and even pop music for material. Here are five Latin interpretations of songs written by jazz musicians, a process that isn't as ...

Cuban drummer Rafael Monteagudo recently released an instructional video, Clave in Modern Drum Set Playing. This is the first in a series of videos that incorporates African and Afro-Cuban rhythms, ...

Ruta de la Clave, the highly anticipated debut album from Juno-winning Cuban-Canadian percussionist, composer, producer, and bandleader Joaquin Nuñez, is the result of five years of creative ...

In Dizzy Gillespie’s autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop, someone asked Chano Pozo, the Black Cuban conguero whose ’40s collaborations with the trumpeter gave birth to modern Latin jazz, how he and ...