The special program, titled “Havana Today, Afro Cuban Jazz,” pays tribute to legends Chucho Valdes, Chico O’Farrill, and Chick Corea and will feature Dayramir González on piano, Juan Chiavassa on ...

Victor Campbell doesn’t like to stay in one musical place. The Cuban-born pianist may open his solo set with some James Booker, as he did during a concert last year hosted by the Jazz National ...

Bobby Carcasses is a singer, trumpeter, pianist, conguero and connector in Cuban jazz. As a bandleader, big-band sideman and a founder of the first jazz festival in Cuba, in 1980, he's spent his ...

Since Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo birthed "Manteca" in the '40s just as Cuban musicians like Machito were shaking up New York's jazz scene, Afro-Cuban jazz has continued to entice and fascinate ...

People often ask, “Scotty: what is Latin Jazz? What is Cuban Jazz?” There’s no pat and easy answer. What has come to be known as Latin Jazz might have had its earliest incarnation in some rhythms and ...

In his landmark book, “Cubano Be, Cubano Bop: One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba,” the Cuban musician and musicologist Leonardo Acosta wrote: “Sometimes critics and historians from the United States ...

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Insight Cuba, which launched cultural/educational tours to Cuba in August, added a departure so travelers can attend the 27th annual Havana International Jazz Festival Festival, Dec. 15-18. The ...