HAVANA. ERIKA: IN CUBA, A LOVE OF MUSIC IS CULTIVATED AT AN EARLY AGE. AT THE CONSERVATORY, STUDENTS BURSTING WITH RAW TALENT FINE TUN ETHEIR SKILL. >> I HOPE TO BE A GREAT MUSICIAN. I HAVE TO BE A ...

The Trombone Shorty Foundation is spreading the reach of its mission overseas to provide children music education. In January, the New Orleans-based foundation traveled to Cuba to participate in an ...

For the Aguas Trio, water is the air they breathe. On Friday, the group will be playing selections from its album, “Aguas,” in a performance presented by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance at ...

Explore and celebrate the music that emerged from the introduction of enslaved African peoples to the Caribbean islands. The concert ranges from re-creations of the earliest known performance pieces, ...

In a city that sometimes seems strictly divided along ethnic lines like Miami, one would hardly think that Cubans and Haitians have anything in common. But they do, and much more than they know. The ...

Historic Panart Records sessions have been remastered and collected in a new five volume set. The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions were recorded at various locations around Havana from 1956 to 1964 for the ...

SARAH WILLIS first visited Havana in February 2017. She was working in Miami with the New World Symphony Orchestra and figured she may as well take the hour-long flight across the Strait of Florida, ...