A colleague said Mr. Irizarry, who played timbales with Ray Barretto and Rubén Blades and led his own bands, expanded the instrument’s possibilities “to the nth degree.” By Richard Sandomir ...

In the mid-1970s, an instrument manufacturer named Martin Cohen asked Tito Puente, and a handful of other Latin percussionists to make some records to help him market congas, timbales, and bongos.

Timbales, the two snare-drum-looking instruments usually mounted with an array of cowbells, recall the big bands of the famous Palladium Ballroom in New York, the epicenter of Latin popular music ...

Puente was a brilliant multi-instrumentalist, but is most renowned for his sheer excellence on the timbales. The percussive instruments arose in 20th-century Cuba as an alternative to the classical ...

Here’s how it works. DRUM EXPO 2013: Designed with legendary Cuban Timbalero Orestes Vilató for classical Cuban Timbale sound, these fantastic instruments offer all of the authentic tone and design ...