Buena Vista Social Club' has been nominated for seven Lucille Lortel Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards and two Drama ...
The cofounders of San Francisco’s annual CubaCaribe Festival of Dance and Music easily decided on “A Fire Within,” the theme of this year’s event. With performances “focusing on the passion and drive ...
In 1996, a group of elderly, mostly forgotten Cuban musicians recorded an album that became a critical and commercial phenomenon worldwide. Now, the Grammy Award-winning album has inspired a Broadway ...
Born and bred in Taiwan, Vincent Tsung-Yu Hsu is an award-winning bassist and composer who fuses jazz and Afro-Cuban music with his Taiwanese roots. Hsu was awarded a master’s degree in Jazz ...
When Bauza met Cuban bandleader Machito, together they transformed American popular music. Afro-Cuban music also offered immigrants a sense of pride and identity. It mixed secret Cuban 'spirit ...
I Adore You is written by Esperanza Spalding and combines jazz with the Latin style of samba with elements of Afro Cuban music. It features on the 2008 album Esperanza. GCSE Music Revision ...
The show starts with a performance of the more traditional Afro-Cuban music and dance styles associated with Santeria, and ends with a high-energy rumba that gets foreigners and Cubans alike up ...
Buena Vista Social Club, the musical telling the story behind the landmark Afro-Cuban jazz album of the same name, officially ...