If there's one thing associated with Caribbean music, it's rhythm. After all, the islands (and the continental areas surrounding them) were among the first New World colonies to adopt the styles of ...

NEW ORLEANS – Jazz pianist and composer Hilton Ruiz, who excelled in a wide variety of styles, including Afro-Cuban rhythms and the blues, died early Tuesday, never regaining consciousness after a ...

Hilton Ruiz will be viewed on Monday, June 13, 2006 at the Barrett Funeral Home located at 424 West 51st Street & Ninth Avenue. 212.265.0335 Born in New York City on May 29, 1952, Ruiz was a child ...

FAMILY, friends and fans of Hilton Ruiz gathered yesterday at the Hell’s Kitchen church Sacred Heart of Jesus for a mass held in his honor. But the jazz pianist’s body was still in New Orleans, his ...

Injured in fall on morning of May 19. By Leila Cobo Chief Content Officer Latin/Español, Billboard Latin jazz pianist, arranger and composer Hilton Ruiz remains in a coma due to injuries sustained ...

Hilton Ruiz, 54, a versatile pianist known for his pulsing, rhythmically exciting Latin jazz and bebop playing, died June 6 at East Jefferson General Hospital in New Orleans. He had been in a coma ...

Jazzman Hilton Ruiz has died from complications following an accident in New Orleans. Ruiz had turned 54 barely a week ago. By Billboard Staff Jazzman Hilton Ruiz has died from complications following ...

The injuries that left jazz pianist and composer Hilton Ruiz comatose in a New Orleans hospital were caused by a fall, not an attack, a representative for his family said Thursday. “It kind of looks ...

Jazz pianist and composer Hilton Ruiz was in critical condition Wednesday, nearly a week after he was found unconscious on Bourbon Street, his skull and many bones in his face broken, according to his ...

Pianist/composer Hilton Ruiz, one of the leading figures in Afro-Cuban music as well as an expert bebop player, has remained true to his Latin roots while creating music full of the rhythmic and ...