Pianist Omar Sosa’s appearance at the Jazz Bakery this week is subtitled “The Soul of Cuban Jazz.” But that’s a label that only partly describes the kaleidoscopic sounds and rhythms surging from the ...

The word “clave” refers to the round hardwood stick used as a percussion instrument in tropical latin music (Afro-Cuban, salsa, merengue, cha cha, etc.). It looks a little like a hot dog without the ...

Ruta de la Clave, the highly anticipated debut album from Juno-winning Cuban-Canadian percussionist, composer, producer, and bandleader Joaquin Nuñez, is the result of five years of creative ...

In Dizzy Gillespie’s autobiography, To Be or Not to Bop, someone asked Chano Pozo, the Black Cuban conguero whose ’40s collaborations with the trumpeter gave birth to modern Latin jazz, how he and ...

The clave stands at the heart of Afro‑Cuban and Latin music, functioning not merely as a rhythmic pattern but as an architectural framework around which entire ensembles spin. When a guitarist lightly ...