From the moment Gary Smith heard the sound of Throwing Muses, a bracing rock band led by two teenage stepsisters from Rhode Island, he knew he wanted to work with them. “Your songs are death,” he told ...

Jerry González, a trumpeter and percussionist who was a central figure in Latin jazz, especially through the Fort Apache Band, which he formed almost 40 years ago with his bass-playing brother, Andy ...

The music of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers serves as a suitable theme for this album by Jerry Gonzalez and his Latin jazz band, since they exhibit the same kind of percussive drive with ...

The percussionist, trumpeter and leader of the Fort Apache Band suffered cardiac arrest from smoke inhalation. He was 69 years old. Jerry González, a percussionist and trumpeter who embodied the ...

Jerry Gonzalez spent the morning ahead of his four-day Blues Alley gig running around New York City in search of a place to repair a valve on his trumpet. He finally got it fixed in Woodbridge, N.J.

Jerry González, a percussionist and trumpeter who embodied the convergent spirit of modern Latin jazz, primarily as cofounder and leader of the Fort Apache Band, died Monday in Madrid, Spain. He was ...