The Latin jazz and salsa icon, who died on August 6 at the age of 88 after an extended illness, appears in the film’s Puerto ...

Spike Lee thinks that people from Chicago hate the movie Chiraq.

"He was in his 80s, but he had more energy than I that day," the filmmaker says of the legendary musician, who died Aug. 6 at ...

The award-winning pianist, bandleader and composer was influential in the New York salsa scene and won the first Grammy in a ...

In choosing to adapt Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, Spike Lee set the bar for himself formidably high. That 1963 thriller is ...

This week, Spike Lee releases his new movie, “Highest 2 Lowest.” Starring Denzel Washington, it’s a reinterpretation of Akira ...

Eddie Palmieri was the first Latino to win a Grammy and won seven more over a career spanning nearly 40 albums.

The director's latest, a supercharged ransom thriller set in his beloved New York City, shows the filmmaker reinvigorated and ...

Spike Lee's new film "Highest 2 Lowest" stars Denzel Washington as a record mogul whose life is upended by a kidnapping.

The director returns to New York City, reuniting with Denzel Washington as a big-time record exec, for a twisty parable about power and conscience.

Spike Lee is showing his age. That’s not a slight, but simply an acknowledgment of the mature set of concerns on display in ...

Palmieri, who died Aug. 6, is credited with originating Latin jazz's trombone sound. He later successfully lobbied for a new Grammy category for Afro-Caribbean jazz. Originally broadcast in 1994.