A woman playing trumpet in a salsa band in traditionally macho South America is a rare thing. It's rarer still when that woman is Dutch. Since arriving on Colombia's salsa scene, Maite Hontele has ...
Salsa singer Gilberto Santa Rosa nearly caused mass whiplash at the Kodak Theatre on Saturday night when he stopped to introduce celebrities in the audience. People craned to glimpse a star, Jamie ...
The Playboy Jazz Festival kicked off its annual series of free community concerts Sunday afternoon with performances by the Hollywood Klezmer Jazz Quintet and the Bobby Rodriguez Salsa Orchestra at ...
The Latin melting pot that was New York in the 1960s and 1970s gave rise to salsa dura, or hard salsa. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens and the South Bronx were teeming with immigrants from Cuba, ...
Pacific Mambo Orchestra, with Georgia trombonist Jamie Dubberly, plays the Rialto on Feb. 19. On Monday, Oct. 5, 2010, in a San Francisco Bay Area club, Latin big band Pacific Mambo Orchestra played ...
EVEN as a youngster growing up in France, Sin Miedo pianist Didier Prossaird was attracted to salsa. "It has such a high energy and it is so danceable," Prossaird marvels. "It's a contagious-type ...
A fusion of Spanish canción and guitar and Afro-Cuban percussion with a bit of North American music jazzi-ness, yes that makes Cuban son, the salsa. Combining all these non-Cuban elements grafted onto ...
It’s rarer still when that woman is Dutch. Since arriving on Colombia’s salsa scene, Maite Hontele has been blasting her horn to full houses from Bogota to Seoul and has gradually won the respect of ...