Murga has its roots in Spain but was transformed by the drumming of enslaved Africans On a warm summer afternoon in Buenos Aires last February, an Argentinian friend dropped me off in the charming ...

“I don’t like to rush it when I’m cooking,” says the 49-year-old Jaime Roos, a hugely influential Uruguayan musician who hasn’t released an album of originals since 1996. His most recent album, ...