The clave stands at the heart of Afro‑Cuban and Latin music, functioning not merely as a rhythmic pattern but as an architectural framework around which entire ensembles spin. When a guitarist lightly ...

The word “clave” refers to the round hardwood stick used as a percussion instrument in tropical latin music (Afro-Cuban, salsa, merengue, cha cha, etc.). It looks a little like a hot dog without the ...

Dafnis Prieto came to New York from Cuba more than a decade ago. He needed very little time to scare the pants off most drummers in jazz and Afro-Cuban music. (Hear him demonstrate how he plays clave ...

The latest collaboration between Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Gypsy musicians from North Macedonia stems from a shared rhythm called clave. Also the name of an instrument on which the ubiquitous ...

NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Media interested in interviews should contact Kathy Matter, Purdue Bands public relations, (765) 496-6785. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Pulsating Latin rhythms hit the entertainment ...

Recently, radio host Ayana Contreras went to Cuba to dig into a rhythm known as clave. Ayana is the host of “Reclaimed Soul” on Vocalo Radio in Chicago, a sister station of WBEZ. She says clave is ...

Hands were clapping in the clave rhythm on Friday afternoon inside the Longs Peak room inside the University of Northern Colorado University Center. Leading the clapping was Samuel Torres, a Latin ...

If the whole world were in school, the Cubans would have a Ph.D in rhythm. Even the seemingly easy swing of the Buena Vista Social Club was based on the African polyrhythms of the two-measure clave, ...

Dafnis Prieto came to New York from Cuba more than a decade ago. He needed very little time to scare the pants off most drummers in jazz and Afro-Cuban music. (Hear him demonstrate how he plays clave ...

Recently, radio host Ayana Contreras went to Cuba to dig into a rhythm known as clave. She says clave is essentially a "five-beat rhythmic structure and it's the backbone of a lot of Latin music forms ...