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 ...
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 ...
RICHMOND, Va. — People from across Central Virginia gathered to celebrate Latino culture at the 18th annual Latin Jazz & Salsa Festival held at Midtown Green in Richmond. The free event on Saturday ...
On a Wednesday night in Dinkelspiel Auditorium, four vocalists rehearse an arrangement of Cuban singer Celia Cruz, accompanied by a pianist to their right. Through these weekly rehearsals, Stanford ...
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.
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 ...
The Vermont Jazz Center will host Grammy Award-winning pianist Zaccai Curtis in concert on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m.
Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The 17th Annual Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival is this weekend in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom. On Saturday, Aug. 31 from noon to 8 p.m., the 17th Annual Latin Jazz and Salsa ...
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 ...
Eddie Palmieri, a Grammy-winning pianist and bandleader who helped define Latin jazz, has died. He was 88. The famed musician died Wednesday, Aug. 6, according to Fania Records, a label responsible ...