This album might have been made to jump on the Buena Vista Social Club bandwagon,
but it's one of those rare imitations that takes on a life of its own. Singer Luis Frank, the mastermind behind it, is a young ...
The soundtrack to Dan Klores' four-hour documentary Black Magic, which tells the story of the
civil rights movement in the 1960s through the eyes of basketball players and coaches who attended black colleges and universities during the era, this tight ...
A culturally momentous film directed by a black man, featuring a black lead actor and
a predominantly black supporting cast, Marvel Studios' Black Panther is augmented with an album powered by Kendrick Lamar. It's an unprecedented convergence of the mainstream ...
Perhaps an early response to the success of the Buena Vista Social Club, Wayne Gorbea
and his group, Salsa Picante, were finally signed to a nationwide label to record the hot Afro-Cuban collection Cogele el Gusto, a very similar blend ...
The conceit behind Ace's 2014 compilation Let the Music Play: Black America Sings Bacharach &
David isn't as idiosyncratic as it was for other similar Ace compilations covering the times when Black America sang the Beatles or Bob Dylan. Where ...