The Durham-based percussionist, composer, and improviser Joe Westerlund chats with WUNC music reporter Brian Burns about his ...

Hands were clapping in the clave rhythm on Friday afternoon inside the Longs Peak room inside the University of Northern Colorado University Center. Leading the clapping was Samuel Torres, a Latin ...

At the Dallas Black Dance Theatre studio, choreographer Claude Alexander III (seated at center) works with company members during a rehearsal of his "The Way of the Clave."(Smiley N. Pool / Staff ...

Recently, radio host Ayana Contreras went to Cuba to dig into a rhythm known as clave. She says clave is essentially a "five-beat rhythmic structure and it's the backbone of a lot of Latin music forms ...

If the whole world were in school, the Cubans would have a Ph.D in rhythm. Even the seemingly easy swing of the Buena Vista Social Club was based on the African polyrhythms of the two-measure clave, ...