Orquesta Akokán takes its name from the Yoruba word meaning "from the heart." The group's self-titled debut album, released in March, draws deep from the soul and history of Cuba, reviving the spirit ...

There is no longer a need to scuttle to Hialeah or Y'bor City, authentic Cuban cuisine is now doing the rumba in Louisville. Though there have been imitations in the past, the River City can now boast ...

Producer Jacob Plasse teamed up with the beloved mambo singer Jose “Pepito” Gomez and an all-star group of Cuban jazz players last year. Their aim was to make a mambo record that could sit alongside ...

Cuban bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo styleof music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had fallen ill ...

CHICO — Cuban-born band Orquesta Akokan travels from New York to bring a mix of mambo and salsa to the West Coast this month. Performing at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. on June 21, this will be ...

I started to seriously listen to music around 1972, when I became an active rather than passive listener, constantly searching for songs I'd never heard before. It was a great time to do it, because ...

Ry Cooder’s 1997 collaboration with a group of septuagenarian Cuban musicians, Buena Vista Social Club, sold 8 million copies and earned a Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Performance. It also earned ...

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I count myself blessed to have grown up in the Bronx, just a short walk from Yankee Stadium, in a multi-ethnic world of Eastern European cooking. There were delis and pickle stands and aromatic shops ...

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