Music

The term "Latin music" originated from the United States due to the growing influence of

Have you heard, listened and enjoyed Oscar Peterson & Count Basie playing together before a live audience? 

To celebrate Count Basie's and Oscar Peterson's birth-months we are happy and proud to present these two keyboard artists.

City Island Avenue is lined end to end with seafood houses — lobster shacks, clam bars, fried-clam stands, and white-tablecloth spots that have been serving the same families for generations. Tucked into the Bronx on the edge of Long Island Sound, this one-mile stretch has built its identity around one thing: seafood, pulled straight from the water it sits on.

Because the Cuban government heavily monitors internet communication and suppresses dissident speech, the track had to be built in total secrecy.Clandestine Verses: While Yotuel, Descemer Bueno, and Gente de Zona recorded their main tracks in Miami, underground rappers Maykel Osorbo and El Funky recorded their parts inside Cuba using hidden, low-tech home studio setups.Smuggling the Audio: The digital vocal tracks were secretly encrypted and transmitted off the island to Miami, where producers meticulously mixed them into the final track.The Secret Music Video: Beatriz Luengo (Yotuel’s wife and director of the subsequent Patria y Vida documentary) secretly hired a cameraman inside Cuba. He filmed Osorbo, El Funky, and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara singing their verses inside a crumbling Havana house. The video files were smuggled out of the country piece by piece.

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The FBI's COINTELPRO program monitored Civil Rights leaders and, in some cases, artists and cultural figures associated with the movement, treating outspoken Black public figures as potential security concerns.

In the realm of music, few genres reportedly demonstrate the dynamic interplay of cultural influences as vividly as jazz. 

New York City dwellers will have the opportunity to watch The Strawberry Moon peak on Monday, June 29, at 7:57 p.m. ET, according to the Farmer's Almanac. It will still look full a few days before and after it peaks.

And the prime location is going to be inside Central Park’s Strawberry Fields. Also know as the following names: