Cuban percussionist Miguel “Anga” Diaz, an acclaimed conga master who perfected a dazzling five-drum technique with a versatility that allowed him to span genres from progressive jazz to traditional ...

Oluwatayo Oluwadamilare Ajayi aka Tayo Conga, is a living testament to the power of rhythm as a cultural force. Born and bred in Lagos, but hails from Ikogosi Ekiti State, he has spent over a decade ...

FILE - In this May 4, 2012 file photo, the Pedrito Martinez Group performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans. Martinez and the Red Baraat rhythms band are among the acts ...

The Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival features an eclectic mix of African-rooted music, including some New Orleans brass bands, on March 23 and 24 , 2013 ( The Rebirth Brass band, pictured here, ...

Ray Barretto, the towering Puerto Rican percussionist who straddled the occasionally conflicting worlds of salsa and Latin jazz during a career that spanned more than half a century, died Friday. He ...

“JC” Johnny Conga, a Volcano Percussion endorsee, has been performing for 45 years, as a “multi-percussionist-specialist”, in the Art of Afro-Caribbean Drumming, and Latin-Jazz music. Some of the ...

He brought Afro-Cuban influences to American ensembles and dazzled audiences with his virtuosic multiple-drum technique. By Neil Genzlinger “When you talk about percussion, particularly the evolution ...

In colonial times, the cobblestone area just inside the main entrance of Louis Armstrong Park was a Sunday gathering place for enslaved Africans. Now known as Congo Square, it was one of the few ...

As the Democratic Republic of Congo celebrated 60 years of independence just over a week ago, the country’s music that has been so much a part of that post-independence history is undergoing radical ...