A true jazz giant, Ray Barretto, who died Friday at 76 in New Jersey, made his name playing conga drums on jazz and salsa records since the late 1950s. Today, he will be buried at Riverside Memorial ...

Don’t tell anybody, but many practitioners of Santeria, the West African religion, purchase their batas (Nigerian two-headed drums) from a Jewish artisan in Crown Heights. “It’s almost sacrilegious to ...

Entanglement causes two separated objects to behave as though they are connected, illustrated here as two conga drums twisted around each other. However, as the researchers measure each drum’s ...

For nearly 40 years, conguero (conga drummer) and bandleader Ray Barretto has been one of the leading forces in Latin jazz, and is widely credited for being the first U.S.-born percussionist to ...