SAN ANTONIO – It’s official. One of the seismic music stories in 2014 will be a reunion album, after more than 50 years, from brothers and musical legends Flaco Jimenez and Santiago Jimenez Jr.

Santiago Jiménez Jr. has drawn worldwide accolades for sticking to the traditional conjunto sound pioneered by his father. He appears this Saturday at Taco Fest. Credit: Jim Mendiola Beyond being a ...

On a day where temperatures in San Antonio’s Los Angeles Heights neighborhood touch 102 effortlessly, Santiago Jiménez Jr. looks impossibly cool. He wanders outside his office in a pressed, ...

San Antonio’s Tejano Conjunto Festival began in 1982. That’s also the last time brothers Flaco Jimenez and Santiago Jimenez Jr. shared a stage together. Flaco, 73, is conjunto’s crossover figure, the ...

It doesn’t really bother Santiago Jimenez Jr. that three generations of accordion players might end with him. At 73, he’s still touring, still producing music and still more than happy to sell CDs ...

The song has yet to be written about the “crazy life” and wild West Side times of Santiago Jimenez Jr. But in his heart, Jimenez knows what it would be called: “El Corrido de Jimmy y Leo.” It would ...

Conjunto accordion legend Santiago Jimenez Jr. said he jumped “like a little kid,” when he heard the news, “like they were going to make me a piñata.” Cisneros and Jimenez are among the 12 recipients ...