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 ...

Timba, a Cuban cousin of Salsa is popular worldwide, but never really caught on in LA. That might be changing, if a hard-working Timba band keeps finding new fans. In the early 1990s, “Timba”, a new ...

Juanito “Long John” Oliva is probably best known to the wider music audience for his stirring percussion work with the guitar duo Strunz and Farah. But the Havana-born tumbador has surfaced in a ...

For the Cuban timba group Tiempo Libre, a 2002 gig at Ravinia provided some needed encouragement. But the importance of the gig for the young musicians really hit home when bandleader Jorge Gomez met ...

After the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the onetime superpower could no longer provide much-needed resources like oil to Cuba. In this critical time, the Chinese government donated thousands of ...

On iQba, tenor saxophonist Carlos Averhoff Jr. employs a skilled quintet to provide dance-worthy renditions of a series of jazz classics plus an original ballad, all shaped by timba, one of the ...

Put on your dancing shoes. Pianist Cesar “Pupy” Pedroso is bringing one of the hippest and hottest bands in Cuba – Pupy y Los que Son Son – to Boston. Pedroso plays the Wilbur Theatre Tuesday, and his ...

In this 90 minute concert, 15 piece Cuban Salsa Orchestra - Timba Británica will play a selection of Cuba’s biggest hits from the 1990’s hailed as the ‘Golden era in the Cuban Salsa’ from bands such ...

Increasingly, the Cuban-emigre, Miami-based band Tiempo Libre’s name is starting to sound like a serious misnomer. After all, when exactly is this workaholic septet supposed to have “free time,” given ...

The Cuban music form known as timba developed in the 1980s, but exploded in popularity throughout the '90s. While training in jazz and classical conservatories, many Cuban musicians were looking for a ...