In a recent episode of Latino 54, host Franco Silva sat down with Angel Rafael “Papo” Vázquez, a trombonist, composer, arranger, and bandleader whose career spans decades and genres. This ...

Salsa meets jazz for six hours in Bushnell Park this Saturday. The 11th annual Salsa Meets Jazz Festival features six acts that explore the relationship between jazz and Latin music, each of them ...

PORT TOWNSEND — It’s about to get hot in here. Hips will swivel, waists will turn fluid, men will work up a sweat while women glow — all because they cannot resist that seductive thing called salsa.

RICHMOND, Va. -- The sounds of Latin jazz and salsa music won’t be heard in Byrd Park this summer but as they say, the show must go on. The 13 th annual Latin Jazz and Salsa Show Festival is going ...

MILWAUKEE - Mitchell Shiner Latin Vibes presents: LATKES CON SALSA: A Latin Jazz Hanukkah! Latkes con Salsa is a project that spins a new groove to Hanukkah songs, celebrating the music of the ...

Local vocalist/percussionist Gino Castillo remembers his grandmother listening to Cuban boleros on the radio and his grandfather spinning vinyls of classic composers Bach, Beethoven, Wagner and ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- The 17th annual Latin Jazz & Salsa Festival took place Saturday for the first time at Richmond's 17th Street Market. "Sweet" Louis Hidalgo, the "Voice of Latin Jazz," who created the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The 11th annual Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival presents a diverse array of performers in 2018. Van Lester, Johnny Love, Wanda Lopez, Rafael Ortiz y su Orquesta Tumbao Urbano, ...

One of the major misnomers about the history of Latin Jazz is the small scope of coverage that the music has received outside of the accomplishments of musicians within New York City. There’s no doubt ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The 15th Annual Latin Jazz & Salsa Festival is happening this weekend at Byrd Park’s Dogwood Dell Amphitheater. The event takes place on Saturday, Aug. 27 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

“I’ve been called the ‘madman of salsa,’” said Eddie Palmieri. “I’ve got so many names, I forget my own name.” Palmieri has also been called an innovator by many and a “Jazz Master” by the National ...