One of the distinguishing components of Afro-Cuban jazz is the instruments employed by the percussionists. In the U.S., there is usually one drummer with a drum kit (drums, cymbals and maybe a wood ...

“Somebody gave me this small conga drum to fix, but they never came back to pick it up,” she recalled recently. “Then, I saw this ad for a special class at the Africa Center taught by a ...

“Somebody gave me this small conga drum to fix, but they never came back to pick it up,” she recalled recently. “Then, I saw this ad for a special class at the Africa Center taught by a ...

The rims can be disassembled via Allen key-operated lug holes on the underside of the rims. The drums are also tuned from underneath the rims via conventional size tuning lugs with a standard drum key ...

In his column this week, Jeff Weiss talks with renowned conga player Poncho Sanchez about the unlikely gringo who put him on. Today we've got another Sanchez story about an even stranger encounter ...

The Signature Grand Conga Series has been praised for its combination of wide-body designs and advanced handcraftsmanship. The series feature an 11" Quinto, 11 3/4" Conga and 12 1/2" Tumba with ...

He uses several tuned conga drums, and he began by playing melodies carefully. His playing makes sense, it has cadences, and it starts and finishes logically.

Santana percussionist Raul Rekow, who helped introduce the conga drums to an audience outside of Latin music, has died. He was 61. Carlos Santana, ...