For the first time, Carnaval, the famous pre-Lenten tradition in Latin America, made its way to the hilltop on March 11. The ...

Kuumbwa Jazz will host an evening of music, cultural celebration and local artistry when Samba Ngo and Mandjou Koné perform at the venue for the “Legends Among Us” concert Saturday.

Shortly before beginning his production work with The Beatles, EMI's George Martin collaborated with The BBC Radiophonic ...

WEST Cumbrian streets came alive with the vibrant rhythms of samba as Drum Nation, a renowned community-led percussion group, embarked on ...

Where better to talk about the power of music than South by Southwest? In the chaos of Austin’s streets, where every bar hums ...

Back in 2007, we caught up with Kraftwerk’s former rhythm robot, who had much to share about the fraught relationship with the band that defined electronic music ...

Simple controls on the front of the sturdy, analog circuit-packed, box enabled users to switch between preset genre-aligned rhythms (rock, samba, waltz ... ever - to combine these preset beats and ...

Not in a samba drum section; they’re drummers,” said ... But he never loses sight of the nearest director guiding the beat. “You just pay attention to the director,” Gomes said.

Tracing shapes in the air could point to how each beat must come. And one’s free fingers can often signal a shift in dynamics. Subtle hand signs likewise coordinate the hundreds of pounding ...

The film’s smooth soundtrack feeds into foreigners’ imagination of Brazil as a country where samba and bossa nova ... as well as looking for good beats. Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa ...