If you ever came across African diasporic music in North Carolina with live drums — like, djembes, dununs, shékeres — then there's a good chance master drummer Baba Bradley Simmons was involved.

LOS ANGELES — Francisco Aguabella, an Afro-Cuban percussionist considered a master sacred drummer who also had a wide-ranging career in jazz and salsa, has died. He was 84. Aguabella died Friday of ...

Those funny-sounding words are music to the ears of sixth-graders at Linda Elementary School, where every week they gather in teacher Timothy Dant's Afro-Cuban drum class to palm and pound on musical ...