Don’t tell anybody, but many practitioners of Santeria, the West African religion, purchase their batas (Nigerian two-headed drums) from a Jewish artisan in Crown Heights. “It’s almost sacrilegious to ...

These Tycoon congas are big, imposing and authentic sounding - in the right hands, truly inspirational percussion instruments. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers ...

‘You wouldn’t think there’s a lot to a drum, but there is,“ said Peter Musser. Peter Musser knows he isn’t always the easiest person to get in touch with. “I am an old guy, and it takes a long time to ...

Terry "Doc" Handy discovered the congas when he was 12. Actually, it was more like he connected with them - because when he began playing the Cuban drums, he began activating the musical links woven ...

It was 1967 and, according to Raul Rekow, "everyone in the Bay area of San Francisco was buying a conga and in any park you had 20 or 30 conga players, nobody really knowing how to play. We all would ...