This 1973 record from Ray Barretto was a natural response to more or less being abandoned by his once tight-knit jazz players. Barretto transitioned from jazz to salsa and managed to put together a ...

How does one reinvent salsa, a universally beloved and traditional music genre? That’s the question that 34-year-old salsero Luis Figueroa keeps asking himself. From touring the world with Romeo ...

Jacksonville-based salsa band LPT is celebrating its 10th anniversary with 10 new songs and a new album. The band will release one new song per month leading up to a celebratory concert on October ...

Salsa has known more than its share of star vocalists and virtuoso instrumentalists. But among the artists who defined the rich, layered specificity of its sound was Willie Colón, who died on Feb. 21.