Cuba

WBGO’s Lezlie Harrison talks with the Cuban jazz pianist Harold López-Nussa about ‘Timba a la Americana,’ his debut on Blue Note Records.

Pianist, composer and bandleader Chucho Valdés discusses his large scale work with WBGO host Bobby Sanabria

In a WBGO premiere, Cuban big band Orquesta Akokán shares the third single from 16 Rayos: a dispatch from the dance floor titled "Fiebre De Mambo."

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to music journalist Judy Cantor-Navas about Cuban music's impact on the Buena Vista Social Club. The group's popular album came out 25 years ago this month.

Hear the latest from singers Jazzmeia Horn and Kate McGarry, saxophonists Kenny Garrett and Ken Vandermark, and trumpeter Terence Blanchard.

Candido Camero, a virtuoso percussionist who had a major hand — or more precisely, two of them — in the development of Afro-Cuban music, died today at his…

In the Afro-Caribbean musical tradition, the essential pulse on the low end can be conjured in a single word, tumbao. But within that word, there are…

After our Deep Dive into Candido Camero, we wanted to provide a highlight reel of recommended listening.At 99, Candido has witnessed and participated in…

Roberto Fonseca comes from a storied lineage of Cuban pianists.That pantheon runs from Damaso Pérez Prado to Lilí Martínez to Chucho Valdés to Emiliano…

“Who would have guessed it would finally be my turn?” wrote Ibrahim Ferrer on the album sleeve of his second solo album, Buenos Hermanos.A Cuban singer of…