Quick and to the Point: A terrific live documentation of Puente’s distinctive foray in Jazz. Tito Puente Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival is a seasoned live star meet with Puente delimited, as was ...

No musician was more responsible in his lifetime for bringing the sound of Latin music to jazz and popular music audiences than Tito Puente. During a career spanning over half a century Puente ...

`This is the Tito Puente Latin-Jazz Ensemble,” announced Tito Puente, introducing his band Tuesday night at the Fairmont Hotel`s Moulin Rouge. ”Do they sound like a jazz ensemble?” Well, to tell the ...

"Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together.” Without a doubt, Tito Puente, Jr. and his late father, are truly pioneers of change with their unique and groundbreaking style that has come to ...

Tito Puente, Jr. will headline the opening night of the inaugural Marin Jazz season on October 4, joined by his 7-piece band for an electrifying performance titled Bringing a Taste of Cuba. This event ...

There`s a memorable scene in the movie ”Stripes” that until recently epitomized the career of Latin jazz great Tito Puente. Bill Murray`s girlfriend berates him for spending his life following two ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and that is the music of the young Tito Puente, a percussionist who swung hard from his birth to his death. It's from a set called Tito ...

Well, anyone that has seen [Tito Puente] live can attest to the fact that he was the most exciting live performer on the planet. Percussionist Tito Puente turned out 118 records, more than 2,000 ...

In 1971, Carlos Santana’s rock version of “Oye Como Va” made its author, Tito Puente, an international star. Yet when Puente wrote the original cha-cha-chá version, released by Tico Records on the ...

8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25. $22-$51. Ferst Center for the Arts (on the Georgia Tech campus), 349 Ferst Drive N.W., Atlanta. 404-894-2787 or 404-894-9601, http://arts ...

In his 50-plus-year career in music, Tito Puente was called many names: “King of Latin Music,” an icon, a legend, a pioneer. “But he was just dear old dad to me,” says Tito Puente Jr. The elder Puente ...