Like the recently reissued Our Blues, this double CD presents Cal Tjader before he seriously delved ... Born in Havana, Cuba in 1922, Ramon Santamaria, lovingly known as Mongo was to Afro-Cuban music ...

HAVANA — In a rattan chair with a large oval backrest, almost like a throne, the 94-year-old “Diva” of Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, sat in her home in Cuba as she reminisced ...