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Latin jazz at its best enacts a kind of diplomacy, a dialogue between two separate but related parties. The trumpeter and conguero Jerry Gonzalez has long been an emissary in the field, equally fluent in hard bop and the music of the Afro-Caribbean diasporas, and given to reconciling the two. In recent years he has worked extensively with flamenco musicians, as a byproduct of his nearly decade ...

Dave Matthews performs at the Comcast Theatre in Hartford on Friday. ( Abigail Pheiffer, Special to The Courant / May 25 , 2012 ) Until last year, the Dave Matthews Band was something of a summer tradition in Hartford, appearing at the Comcast Theatre every year since its opening and ranking each year among the season’s biggest shows.

Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band began a four-night run at the Blue Note with a lineup that was both old and new.

I saw these guys at the Dave Matthews Caravan festival in Atlantic City last summer, and it made for an entertaining pre-Flaming Lips Friday afternoon. The spangly suit-wearing alter ego of the hard core punk band The Bronx who, naturally, are from Los Angeles, Mariachi El Bronx are fronted by singer Matt Caughthran, and they're serious about what they do.

The Band Are Set To Make A Comeback With New Album 'Streets In The Sky'...

Groups of instrument-playing schoolchildren, armed forces, and others marched on Sunday down the tree-lined Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx.

Justin Townes Earle "Hear my father on the radio, singing . . ." Thus Justin Townes Earle begins his fourth album, Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now. That's not the only time Steve Earle is alluded to in the 10-song set. Not t

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who was grilled by members of the City Council Thursday over the department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy, says the department will make changes to the policy and retrain officers. | Read New Yorkers' thoughts . | Former police officers discuss stop and frisk in the Bronx .

A 5-foot-6 Burmese Python that was recovered in the parking lot of Christiano's Pizza on Route 9G in Hyde Park will soon have a new home at the Bronx Zoo.

Vans Offthewall.tv has launched and will feature SSS, Trash Talk, Cerebral Ballzy and The Bronx as they travel to North Wales, Nottingham, Moscow and Gothenburg to play music and soak up the local culture

Thirty-five years ago, a brash new band burst onto the Los Angeles music scene. Known for its off-k