Pianist, composer, bandleader Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva, known to jazz fans the world over as Horace Silver is known for his distinctive humorous and funky playing style and for his pioneering ...

Born and bred in Taiwan, Vincent Tsung-Yu Hsu is an award-winning bassist and composer who fuses jazz and Afro-Cuban music with his Taiwanese roots. Hsu was awarded a master’s degree in Jazz ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection documents the personal life and professional career of Graciela Perez-Gutierrez, a well known Afro-Cuban singer. Born in Havana, she ...

Backed by the 18-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, pianist Arturo O'Farrill started a celebration of Brazilian music with "Alafia," a Latin-tinged jazz tune before welcoming Cyro Baptista to the stage ...

Blue Note recording artist, pianist, composer, and educator, Arturo O’Farrill be joined by WMU Jazz Studies students and faculty for an exciting night of Afro-Latin Jazz. An 8-time GRAMMY Award winner ...

There is a life-affirming quality to traditional Cuban music, a seductive trait that seems to communicate directly with a listener’s soul. Characterized by a fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz ...

Cuban pianist, composer and arranger Chucho Valdés is the most influential figure in modern Afro-Cuban jazz, as well as a Detroit favorite who headlined the 2022 Detroit Jazz Festival as ...

Jazz is often heavily concerned with tradition. And it’s not as if pianist Arturo O’Farrill or vocalist Rachael Price are disconnected from the tradition. O’Farrill, the son of trumpeter and famed ...

When the steel door to Kennedy Airport’s Gate 8 slammed shut, Arturo O’Farrill was on the wrong side. With his wife, sons, and mother in tow one Monday in December, he was bound for Miami, then for ...

SOUTH BEND — The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective performs at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at Merrimans’ Playhouse, 401 E. Colfax Ave., Suite 135. A native of Ponce, Puerto Rico, guitarist José Guzmán Borrero ...