DISCOVERY SERIES: CUBA provides you with a selection of sampled percussion and melodic instruments based on Afro-Cuban music styles that integrate into the latest versions of KONTAKT 5 or the free ...

HAVANA (AP) – In a light-filled workshop cluttered with tools and pieces of old string instruments, three men carve strips of imported wood and silently measure the angles of violin pegs and viola ...

The Trombone Shorty Foundation is spreading the reach of its mission overseas to provide children music education. In January, the New Orleans-based foundation traveled to Cuba to participate in an ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - As the musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra prepared to leave for Cuba on Wednesday, some were worried about their ability to return home with their instruments. Top-flight ...

HAVANA. ERIKA: IN CUBA, A LOVE OF MUSIC IS CULTIVATED AT AN EARLY AGE. AT THE CONSERVATORY, STUDENTS BURSTING WITH RAW TALENT FINE TUN ETHEIR SKILL. >> I HOPE TO BE A GREAT MUSICIAN. I HAVE TO BE A ...

Just three percussion instruments – the conga, bongos and timbales – transform a big band into a Latin ensemble full of upbeat melodies and unexpected rhythms. The fusion occurs every Thursday night ...

(New York, NY) HORNS TO HAVANA will take a full planeload of musical instruments and nearly another planeload of jazz musicians, luthiers and brass, percussion and woodwind repair technicians to four ...

Only a few days before she was to debut new music at Koerner Hall, Grammy-nominated saxophonist and flautist Jane Bunnett was fuming. Porter Airlines, she says, left her unexpectedly paying thousands ...