The Latin Rhythms specialize in, appropriately, Latin jazz, a catchall term for salsas, bossa novas and other South American and Afro-Cuban dance music. Most of the Latin Rhythms' catchy repertoire is ...

At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice,” he said. “Salsa is ...

Ra ta ta, tá tá. The sound of the clave plays across Brooklyn on a windy Friday night in September. Under the Brooklyn Bridge in the Dumbo Archway, Lulada Club — a 10-member, all-woman band — starts ...

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“So hot and danceable that even when you talk about the group, you find yourself moving your hips.” – Richmond Times Dispatch “High-voltage, infectiously danceable Afro-Cuban rhythms with conservatory ...

Picture a white sand beach, the shade of a palm-frond, crystal-blue skies and ocean, a citrus-flavored drink in hand, and a singer who slides up to the microphone in front of a group of top-flight ...

Our Billboard Latin and Español writers pick the very best groups since the genre became a staple of Spanish-language culture. Poetic power ballads and distortion. Rebellious chants across stadiums ...