NEW YORK-- Growing up in the Bronx was the inspiration behind a jazz musician's first Grammy-nominated solo album. CBS2's Vanessa Murdock introduces us to Carlos Henriquez. The smooth bellow of the ...

Picture a white sand beach, the shade of a palm-frond, crystal-blue skies and ocean, a citrus-flavored drink in hand, and a singer who slides up to the microphone in front of a group of top-flight ...

On his latest album, “Jazz Flute Traditions,” Néstor Torres memorably pays tribute to such legends of the instrument as Hubert Laws, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Mann and Yusef Lateef. To Torres’ regret, he ...

Each June, just as the marine layer gives way to early summer sun, a different kind of tide rolls into downtown San Diego, not waves, but the warm, rhythm-soaked tones of smooth jazz. The San Diego ...

(KRON) — If you are a jazz lover, get out your dancing shoes. The Annual Latin Jazz Festival is coming back to downtown Hayward on Saturday. This free festival will have three stages of smooth jazz. A ...

Steve Alcala, a music teacher and trumpet player, fell in love with Latin Jazz, but very little sheet music was available to help his students learn. So he started a sheet music publishing company.

Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly ironic part-time job ...

Celebrate the rhythms of Latin music with performances by GRAMMY-winners. Celebrate the rhythms of Latin music with the Raices Jazz Orchestra and performances by GRAMMY-winning artists including ...

You’ve just released your second CD. “A Song of You,” which, as with your first project, “Summer Samba,” is a rich tapestry of Brazilian and Latin tunes and rhythms. What brought about the focus for ...