At the Dallas Black Dance Theatre studio, choreographer Claude Alexander III (seated at center) works with company members during a rehearsal of his "The Way of the Clave."(Smiley N. Pool / Staff ...

Dafnis Prieto came to New York from Cuba more than a decade ago. He needed very little time to scare the pants off most drummers in jazz and Afro-Cuban music. (Hear him demonstrate how he plays clave ...

Hands were clapping in the clave rhythm on Friday afternoon inside the Longs Peak room inside the University of Northern Colorado University Center. Leading the clapping was Samuel Torres, a Latin ...

NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Media interested in interviews should contact Kathy Matter, Purdue Bands public relations, (765) 496-6785. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Pulsating Latin rhythms hit the entertainment ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We investigated the effect of tempo on the production of the syncopated 3-2 son clave rhythm. We recorded eleven experienced percussionists ...

Recently, radio host Ayana Contreras went to Cuba to dig into a rhythm known as clave. She says clave is essentially a "five-beat rhythmic structure and it's the backbone of a lot of Latin music forms ...

...we can see the reanimated spirit of those early proto-jazz musicians in New Orleans echoing through the culture, hundreds of millions of people entirely unaware that they were dancing and listening ...