If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

The Oyu Oro Experimental Dance Ensemble returns to New Orleans courtesy of the Ashe Cultural Center, presenting two nights of Afro-Cuban dancing with conga drums and other percussion. Oyu Oro, loosely ...

Aguabella, a sacred drummer of the Santeria religion, left Cuba in the 1950s. He performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Palmieri, Carlos Santana and the Doors.

Drumboxing class members exercise with instructor John Wakefield mixing a combination of afro-cuban rhythms with standing drums and fundamental boxing techniques while applied to patterns, tempo ...

Drummer Brian Andres’s new album with the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel, San Francisco, not only takes its title from the band’s home base. The CD, to be released July 16 by the leader’s Bacalao Records ...