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 ...

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. — 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eddie Palmieri performs on Aug. 2, 2009, at the Theatre de la Mer in Sete, Southeastern France. Eddie Palmieri, a Grammy-winning ...

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 ...

The Latin Jazz and Salsa Show Festival is bubbling over in the Bottom. The region’s longest running Latin music festival is making a move. “It’s the 17th at the 17th,” says “Sweet” Lou Hidalgo, the ...

Panchito is amazing, not just in their chemistry & musicianship, the fact that they are a Latin Jazz/salsa rooted band from The Netherlands. Their leader, guitarist & composer Andre van Berlo, ...

Taking a musical project from idea to reality is certainly a process that involves a number of different resources. On the one hand, time is a major factor – individuals not only need to out in the ...

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 ...