For much of its 122-year history, the NAMM Show has served as a vital economic barometer for the creators, manufacturers, distributors and retailers of music instruments and equipment. It has also ...

For much of its 122-year history, the NAMM Show has served as a vital economic barometer for the creators, manufacturers, distributors and retailers of music instruments and equipment. It has also ...

The cuíca’s central role in most Brazilian music — from samba to Tropicália — means it has swathed me all my life. While I’ll never know where I first heard the drum, I keep going back ...

But psychedelic rock wasn’t the only music shaking up the U.S. pop scene in the swinging ’60s. Perhaps Eartha Kitt said it best when she introduced a pioneering Brazilian jazz musician and ...

On June 25, at Hong Kong City Hall, the spotlight fell on Brazilian music, along with an array of percussion instruments such as the marimba, as Brazilian composer and percussionist Ney Rosauro ...

Brazilian percussionist Luciano Xavier, with brown drum, teaches a class in Washington, D.C. He’s one of the featured performers at LAVAGEM!, a celebration of African Brazilian music and dance ...

Brazilian popular music and bossa nova legend Caetano Veloso graced Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall on one of the final stops of his farewell tour of the United States this past Sunday. The ...

For this program of Brazilian music, however, the band’s 22 members will perform in a different idiom, too — one they don’t get to try out except during a certain time of year.

The 10th annual Berkeley Festival of Choro will be held April 17-20 and offers concerts featuring special guest musicians, three community jam sessions and five public events.

Still working solo, he taught himself a myriad of instruments, studied composition and honed his production skills. And in the course of a quarter-century, he pushed the boundaries even further.