The salsa icon and Nuyorican pioneer’s bold trombone sound and landmark collaborations helped define a generation of Latin music.

JCWK Dance Lab presents the inaugural Greater Reading Area Dance Exchange (GRADE) Festival on March 13 at 7:30 p.m., March 14 at 7:30 p.m. and March 15 at 4 p.m. at Alvernia University’s Francis Hall ...

Salsa has known more than its share of star vocalists and virtuoso instrumentalists. But among the artists who defined the ...

One of salsa music's most towering figures is gone — the Grammy-nominated trombonist and activist died Saturday at 75.(115 ...

Willie Colon showed virtuosic ability on the trombone and was working professionally by his early teens.

Willie Colón, the legendary salsa icon, died Saturday morning, his family confirmed. He was 75. A cause of death has not been disclosed.

Willie Colón, a key creator of urban salsa and a longtime social activist, has died. He was 75. His family and manager ...

A trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and arranger, he collaborated with Rubén Blades on “Siembra,” a 1978 release that ...

Music superstar Willie Colón, who helped define the salsa genre in the 1970s and '80s, died on Saturday, Feb. 21, his family confirmed on Facebook.

Willie Colón, the legendary Latin musician who helped define salsa music, has died at the age of 75. The Bronx-born ...

Throughout his career, Colón released more than 40 albums, pioneering a salsa sound influenced by the streets of New York ...

If there was one collaboration that changed the history of Latin music, it was that of Rubén Blades and Willie Colón. On Saturday, the legendary Panamanian artist mourned the death of the New ...