Join us for a special evening as we present "Tribute to the Mambo" with special guest saxophonist/flautist Mitch Frohman! Mr. Frohman and the Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble will be presenting both ...

Jazz musicians have long mined Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and even pop music for material. Here are five Latin interpretations of songs written by jazz musicians, a process that isn't as ...

A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: A lot of people say bebop wasn't for dancing, but that music makes it clear that some bebop was for dancing. I'm A.B. Spellman, and, Murray Horwitz, ...

Instructor Katherine Jiménez, an Afro-Latina Mambo teacher with the Ailey Extension, is fostering the rhythm of cultural fusion in motion, making Afro-Caribbean and Latin forms approachable for ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...

Victor Parra was a Chicago-area radio host, musician and bandleader who championed Afro-Cuban jazz music as the host of his weekly radio show, “Mambo Express,” on both WBEZ-FM and WDCB-FM. Parra was ...

Jazz musicians have long mined Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and even pop music for material. Here are five Latin interpretations of... Jazz musicians have long mined Broadway, the Great ...