You can have a million instruments, but if there’s no bass ... Central to many types of Latin music, the guiro is the heartbeat of cumbia. Its cylindrical body, usually made of wood or metal ...

A paradox, maybe, that the instrument that brings all the others ... “that’s what gives the swing to the band.” By the 1950s, Latin music had become big business, so it’s no surprise ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Centro Musical is a place where lovers of Latin music can find everything ... with all kinds of Caribbean percussion instruments-from shekere, bongos and congas to the ...

Explore musical instruments in the Anacostia Community Museum's collection ... Dance to drums of the African diaspora, whose rhythms resound in Latin jazz, mambo, and Bomba del Chota. Imagine pulling ...

He learned the piano at age 7, turned professional at age 13 and played over a dozen instruments ... a musical pioneer." "Fans enjoyed the way Puente put a big band spin on traditional Latin ...

Latin music is a big business and ... One of Álvarez’s first instruments was a homemade drum kit, fashioned from buckets, pillows, and other household objects. At seven, he started on the ...

For the past 10 years, an orchestra from one of the poorest neighborhoods in Latin America has been touring the globe, ...

By Sigal Ratner-Arias Deputy Editor, Billboard Español A new musical inspired in a Latin American true story ... artists who turn scrap material into instruments and music into possibilities.

The big band is to jazz what the symphony orchestra is to classical music and, for a composer, an instrument of unmatched ... and lead the 18-piece Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra.