The Central Avenue Jazz Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary Saturday, with Grammy-winning Latin jazz legend Poncho Sanchez headlining alongside Gregory Porter and Jazzmeia Horn. Why it matters: ...

Eddie Palmieri, the Grammy-winning Nuyorican pianist, bandleader and composer who helped innovate Afro-Caribbean music in the States and transform the New York salsa scene, died on Wednesday. He was ...

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 ...

*The fifth Leimert Park Jazz Festival in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 31 contributed a scintillating balance of veteran and fiery up-and-coming talent to a Clear, warm, and breezy afternoon. Hosted ...

Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.

Introduction. The Other Jazz -- Why call it Latin Jazz? Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or just... Jazz: the politics of naming an intercultural Music -- Caribbean ...

Steve Alcala started teaching high school music in the 1980s. Today, he supplies much needed sheet music to customers around ...

Fernando Trueba, Oscar-winning Spanish director (for “La Belle Epoque”), describes his new film, “Calle 54,” as a “musical banquet” to which he invited his favorite Latin jazz musicians to perform at ...

Pianist Sarah Cahill performs a free concert celebrating nature on Sept. 19 at Community School of Music and Arts. Courtesy Miranda Sanborn. ‘Sarah Cahill: ‘The Woods So Wild’ Pianist Sarah Cahill, ...