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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hilton Ruiz, who has died after a fall aged 54, was a jazz pianist who played Latin, and whose legendary versatility defied the limits suggested by either label. Born to Puerto Rican parents in New ...