The Trombone Shorty Foundation promotes a message of unity with its fourth annual Getting Funky in Havana pilgrimage.

As Cuba stands to become even more isolated, many Cubans continue to leave and those who stay remain cut off from family in the United States. Carlos Varela, a singer known as “The Poet of Havana,” ...

The rhythmic pulse of New Orleans jazz merged seamlessly with Afro-Cuban beats on the streets of Havana last month.

That's now grown into an event called Getting Funky in Havana, an exchange in music and broader culture for the young musicians, for a group of American music lovers basking in the chance to visit ...

Stroll the streets of Old Havana, and you will inevitably encounter strains of son—the old style of Cuban music made famous by the group Buena Vista Social Club—wafting down the colonial ...