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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

NUEVA YORK (AP) – Pertenecen a distintas generaciones pero tienen mucho en común: ambos son salseros, pianistas, arreglistas, directores de orquesta y ganadores de premios Grammy. Uno fue parte de la ...

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 ...

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.

LIKE a postmodern ketchup, or figs, Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” goes with anything these days. Play the concertos on guitars, kotos, saxophones if you like. It’s already been years since Gilles Apap ...

In the heat of summer, it seems President Obama is dancing la salsa dura. Along with 40 artists, including Justin Timberlake, Aretha Franklin, and Bob Marley, the president chose Miami-based Colombian ...

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 ...