Cuban-American trumpet player Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros is a walking salsa music encyclopedia. He may not have been present at the birth of the genre in 1928 (he was four years old) but the ...

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 ...

For well over 50 years, Cuban music has been popular on the African continent, a big influence on African sounds. PAPE FALL is a Senegalese singer who leads a rough and ready salsa band with a punchy ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...