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Tito Puente at the timbales as a young man. Tito Puente was still a teenager when he was drafted into the United States Navy in 1942. And while the man we remember as El Rey de los Timbales (“The King of the Timbales”) is a defining titan of Latin jazz, there’s a distinct Asian influence in much of his compositional and arranging style that came out of his service during World War II. Born and raised in Harlem, N.Y., Ernest Anthony Puente, Jr. was trained on piano for eight years by Victoria Hernández — sister of the legendary Puerto Rican composer Rafael Hernández, who had been a...

Walter Lippmann. May 22, 2021  —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from CubaNews — The Cuban Communist Party’s VIII Congress, held in Havana in April 16-19, 2021, found the island confronting perhaps its greatest challenges since the revolutionary government came to power in 1959. Washington’s multi-faceted blockade has been intensified more than ever before, and the Covid-19 pandemic struck a cruel body blow to the island’s tourism economy, its principal source of foreign hard-currency income. As the island’s sole political party, the PCC has faced...

“I was able to produce two amazing albums,” Rosado says. “They are very special because they came from a place of despair — of what’s going to happen, I’ve got nothing to do, no work, nowhere to go — to a place of hope for the future.” Rosado is no stranger to beating the odds. His music isn’t played on Latin commercial radio even though he has won two of the music industry’s biggest awards: a 2012 “Best Tropical Latin Album” Grammy for Retro, which he recorded with his band, Marlow Rosado y La Riqueña, and a 2015 “Best Children’s Album” Latin Grammy for

Orun is a deeper, almost meditative recording and Rosado’s first Latin jazz album. (He interprets the Yoruba word as meaning a protective ancestral spirit.) The album also marks the first time the Puerto Rican musician has worked with Afro-Cuban jazz legend Chucho Valdés. The veteran musician is a guest artist on the track, “Marlow y Chucho,” which Rosado wrote. “I was able to produce two amazing albums,” Rosado says. “They are very special because they came from a place of despair — of what’s going to happen, I’ve got nothing to do, no work, nowhere to go — to a place of...

Puerto Rico Drops Test Requirement for Vaccinated Travelers Arriving on Domestic Flights AFAR 5/26/2021 Photo by Shutterstock Travel to Puerto Rico just got a lot simpler. Updated May 25, 2021, 8:55 p.m. ET: Due to a change in the executive order, the waived test for vaccinated travelers goes into effect on May 25, while the local curfew is lifted as of May 24. Starting May 25, fully vaccinated travelers no longer need to present negative COVID-19 test results to travel to Puerto Rico if they are arriving on a domestic flight from the U.S. mainland. Travelers arriving on international fl...