Real estate entrepreneur Brad Gluckstein had a vision. Perhaps not as dramatic as one of those sightings of Mary Magdalene, but a vision nonetheless. He was having lunch one day in 1995 at Brown’s ...

The conga player who performed with Dizzy Gillespie in his youth was among an impressive line-up of master iconoclasts at a historic Miami concert honoring mambo originator Israel "Cachao" Lopez. By ...

HAD YOU lived in the six-story walkup at 500 LaSalle St. in the 1980s, the one with the statue of an ibis over the doorway, Cesar Castillo would have been your super – the old Spanish guy in the ...

My life changed in March 1950. I ran into mambo on a spring break trip to Mexico City. Mambo, an intricately blended Afro-Cuban dance music, involved me in a world beyond myself, a world that ...

Shimmering in the Anacostia Community Museum's collection are the ruffled sleeves of Washington, DC’s “Original Mambo King,” Roland Kavé. The musician and dance instructor introduced mambo to his ...

Johnny Conga comes from a long line of illustrious tumbadora (conga) players. From the musical evidence on Breaking Skin, this genealogy may begin with the likes of Chano Pozo, Mongo Santamaria, Tata ...

This was not a night for Brahms or Mahler, as the orchestra flicked the switch to conga, mambo and danzon in a concert called The 1950s Latin Lounge, complete with marimba, maracas and cowbells.

A fitting tribute to a company that many regard as synonymous with world-class hand percussion. The congas and bongo set are quite possibly all you'll ever need. Thomann just came out firing for Black ...