Cuban-American trumpet player Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros is a walking salsa music encyclopedia. He may not have been present at the birth of the genre in 1928 (he was four years old) but the ...

Dutch musician and trumpet player Maite Hontele (C) performs in a bar with a salsa band in Bogota -- she says she's "Colombian at heartt" A woman playing trumpet in a salsa band in traditionally macho ...

The Latin melting pot that was New York in the 1960s and 1970s gave rise to salsa dura, or hard salsa. The neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens and the South Bronx were teeming with immigrants from Cuba, ...

It’s rarer still when that woman is Dutch. Since arriving on Colombia’s salsa scene, Maite Hontele has been blasting her horn to full houses from Bogota to Seoul and has gradually won the respect of ...