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NEW ORLEANS — Last month, ten young people with the Trombone Shorty Foundation joined famous New Orleans musicians to perform at the Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba. The trip was designed to showcase New ...

A New Generation of Musicians Is Revitalizing the Music Scene in Cuba HAVANA (AP) — Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, ...

Because there are about 14,800 well-trained professional musicians, most of them concentrated in Havana, the city’s restaurants and cafes, hotels and dance halls come alive with the joyful sounds of ...

Havana is the capital city of Cuba, located on the north coast of the island. It is the largest city in Cuba and has a population of around 2.1 million people. Havana is a popular tourist destination, ...

HAVANA — Cuban teenagers Fabio and Diego Abreu seem shy at first, but the moment they step on stage, they become confident, filling a concert hall in downtown Havana with a hypnotic form of ...

José Luis Cortés, "one of the most important figures in contemporary Cuban music," died on April 18 in Havana, Cuba per the Instituto Cubano de la Música Jack Irvin has over five years of experience ...

Like music in New Orleans and Louisiana, Cuban music runs generation to generation. Traditional music groups in the Caribbean island nation can consist solely of family members. Also like New Orleans ...

Los Van Van, Bola de Nieve, and the legendary Cuban singer and composer Benny Moré, who also melded genres, were big influences too, he said, as were a montón (a ton) of American artists — from the ...

Acclaimed living legend of Afro-Cuban music, seven-time GRAMMY Award winner and six-time Latin GRAMMY Award winner Chucho Valdés celebrates his lauded 60-year recording career with an instant-classic, ...

Music has always had a powerful influence on Cuban culture. Its unique blend of West African and European styles has made Cuba one of the richest and most influential music regions in the world. But ...