He began learning violin, but quickly switched to drums and then congas, and left school early to work as a musician on the highly active local scene in Havana. He graduated to the famous Tropicana ...

Aguankó’s most recent album, 2023’s “Unidad,” reached the top of The Roots Music Report’s Top 50 Jazz Album Chart.

From castanets to congas, they are tools for communication ... His groundbreaking research told stories of sounds and songs transported from Africa to the Americas. Dance to drums of the African ...

Henry Smith on piano and Angel Noriega of San Angelo on conga and Latin percussion. Goacher and Smith will lead the pre-concert discussion, “Music of the Church Influences the Direction of Jazz.” ...

Congas and cow bells can be heard ... with layers of repeated syncopated patterns played on smaller drums, shakers and agogo bells. A genre of samba and jazz with a time signature of 2/4.