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

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the human brain may organize its many cognitive functions by ...

A new study reveals that the human brain synchronizes more accurately with rhythm when listening to music than when feeling it through touch.

How do people keep the beat to music? When people listen to songs, slow waves of activity in the brain correspond to the ...

Why do animals search for food at specific times of the day? In a study published in Current Biology, a research group led by ...

To hear reparto in Havana, you don’t have to go far. It’s playing in every taxi, every café lining La Habana Vieja, on Friday nights at Don Cangrejo and Saturday mornings at Mio y Tuyo. A homemade mix ...

A research team from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the Medical Center - University of Freiburg has gained new insights into the brain processes involved in encoding ...

Bandleader and pianist Eddie Palmieri, whose pounding rhythms forged a new style for Latin music, died Wednesday at the age of 88. Fania Records, the renowned Latin jazz label that released several of ...

Individuals who have mastered a complex field and then devote themselves to helping others master it, too, are incredibly remarkable. They’re also magnetic, especially when they do it with joy and ...

What is R&B, where’d it come from and where’d it go? An array of five-star entertainers will give a musical answer to these questions when the Manship Theatre presents the "Rhythm and Blues Revue" at ...

I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. If jazz has a heartbeat, Afro-Cuban jazz has a pulse—and it’s called the clave. The clave is a repeating two-measure rhythm pattern—either 3-2 or 2-3—and it’s ...