Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

It’s Saturday afternoon and thunder is closing in. Sleep surrenders to something bigger than this ridiculously sized hangover. A horrific beat-pound double-tracks the alcohol-induced drum loop that’s ...

It was 1967 and, according to Raul Rekow, "everyone in the Bay area of San Francisco was buying a conga and in any park you had 20 or 30 conga players, nobody really knowing how to play. We all would ...

In his column this week, Jeff Weiss talks with renowned conga player Poncho Sanchez about the unlikely gringo who put him on. Today we've got another Sanchez story about an even stranger encounter — ...

Much of the “sound” of the Miami Sound Machine comes from drummer/ songwriter Enrique “Kiki” Garcia. Garcia not only penned MSM’s 1985 breakthrough hit, Conga, but co-wrote Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, ...

FLANKED BY HIS beloved conga drums, Ray Barretto was fondly recalled yesterday as a giant of Latin music who fused the worlds of jazz and salsa. “Ray was good, always – good as a person and good as a ...