Mongo Santamaria, the pioneering Cuban percussionist who was among the most acclaimed exponents of Latin jazz and whose 1963 Top 10 hit “Watermelon Man” stands as a precursor of pop crossover in Latin ...

Family, friends, former students, past band mates and admirers are preparing for Sunday’s memorial service for Lou Stein. The service for the jazz pianist, composer, arranger and academic will be from ...

Latin jazz got a much-needed booster shot earlier this year with the release of "Calle 54 (54th Street)," an artistically rich portrait of the bubbling international-jazz movement. The concert film, ...

Mongo Santamaria enjoyed a long and successful career in Latin music. His recordings and concert performances ranged from the authentic percussion music of Afro-Cuban religious rituals through to ...

Mongo Santamaria, a Cuban conga player and percussionist who arrived in New York at the beginning of the jazz-Latin fusion and was arguably the most popular Latin musician of the 1960s, died Saturday.

The Newport Jazz Festival will honor jazz greats in many forms this weekend; one of them is called "Jazz 100: The Music of Dizzy, Mongo & Monk." That would be Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo Santamaria and ...

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 ...

The Jesús Maria district in the oldest part of Havana, Cuba, might be pretty much overlooked if not for the fact that, 100 years ago Friday, Ramon Santamaria was born there. "Mongo" Santamaria was ...

New York - A popular and influential Latin jazz percussionist is dead.Mongo Santamaria died Saturday in a Miami hospital following a stroke. He was 85.Santamaria scored a top-ten hit in 1963 with his ...