The Latin melting pot that was New York in the 1960s and 1970s gave rise to salsa dura, or hard salsa. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens and the South Bronx were teeming with immigrants from Cuba, ...

So you want something different on classical Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Hollywood Bowl? The Los Angeles Philharmonic made a perhaps bizarre, perhaps prophetic leap in that direction Tuesday night.

Bosch's second release, under Ryko Latino, carried the unveiling of the soul of a trombonist's air. His first recording as a leader, Soneando trombón, was decidedly autobiographical. Salsa Dura, is no ...

Latin salsa star Jimmy Bosch sums up his style of playing in one word, "feverish." But his training at Rutgers University was anything but feverish, dedicated instead to more conventional classical ...

Un buen ‘salsómano’ se imaginaría al legendario maestro de ceremonias de la Fania, Izzy Sanabria presentando el reciente CD de los pianistas Larry Harlow y ...

El cantautor puertorriqueño José “Cheo” Torres arranca este 2023 con el sencillo titulado “Pancho Cartera”, una canción con arreglos para los bailadores y amantes de la salsa dura. El arreglo y ...

On radio and streams, salsa dura has long since been replaced in popularity by the more manufactured sound of salsa romántica — think of the Latin pop studio confections of Marc Anthony and La India.

I have a confession to make: I’ve been thinking about salsa all wrong. One internal complaint in the salsa wars, a family quarrel as it were, frames the debate as “commercial” vs. “old school.” The ...

So you want something different on classical Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Hollywood Bowl? The Los Angeles Philharmonic made a perhaps bizarre, perhaps prophetic leap in that direction Tuesday night.