NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In a practice room at UNO’s School of Music, adjunct instructor Oscar Rossignoli melodically hits piano keys without any sheet music to read from or even notes that he memorized.

From career milestones to new music releases to major announcements and those little important moments, Billboard editors highlight uplifting moments in Latin music. Here's what happened in the Latin ...

For decades, the surest route to international success for a Latin artist was to record in English. At Taiwan’s 2026 Golden ...

Music forms a powerful connection with young people, and for those with a predisposition to music, it inspires any number of reactions. Every listening experience becomes a revelation, and exposure to ...

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Latin jazz arrangements of Stevie Wonder’s discography led the audience down to the dance floor Monday night at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater during a performance by the Jacobs School of Music’s Latin ...

He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.” Eddie Palmieri in performance in the early 1960s. From ...

Eddie Palmieri, the Grammy-winning Nuyorican pianist, bandleader and composer who helped innovate Afro-Caribbean music in the States and transform the New York salsa scene, died on Wednesday. He was ...

July and August of this year will be the months for free jazz, as the free Jazz Trail Concert Series returns for its third year. Hosted by the Kupferberg ...

Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was 88 years old. Fania Records announced Palmieri's death Wednesday evening.

Black. It is the color that absorbs all colors, the shade that holds the sun's warmth as it moves east to west. It is the color of a people, not just African but Caribbean, Middle Eastern, American, ...