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 — ...

The bone bruises, the callouses, the cuts, even job-related kidney stones will never send Raul Rekow into early retirement. Are you kidding? While pounding on the conga drums night-after-night may ...

This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities ...

Matthew McConaughey still plays the conga drums naked, in case you were wondering. ”Of course I still play the congas naked. I just close the windows,” the actor told GQ magazine in an interview for ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – What do you do when you're an NFL coach that's been suspended for an entire season? Play congas for Jimmy Buffet, obviously. Payton was a surprise guest at a Buffet concert in New ...

Long before he became a Latin jazz legend, before he toured alongside the great Cal Tjader, Poncho Sanchez was another kid in Griffith Park carrying a conga drum and looking for someplace to play.

Music is a hobby for Mark Riordan of Naperville, but a "very, very serious hobby." When he scopes out a band, he takes notes on the songs its members play. When he plays a gig, he arrives prepared ...

Ray Barretto, the towering Puerto Rican percussionist who straddled the occasionally conflicting worlds of salsa and Latin jazz during a career that spanned more than half a century, died Friday. He ...

Percussionist Johnny Blas surprised the crowd at Steamers Cafe in Fullerton last month when he stepped from behind his congas and started playing alto saxophone. The 42-year-old Blas, who started out ...