“On Derramando Luz Gema explores aspects of cuban music fused with the harmonics of jazz and convey both the present and the past of cuban music in a selection of outstanding compositions.” Most people sure recognize her name as the...
Pedrito Martínez and his Rumba de la Isla, A Tribute to Maestro Camarón Rumba de la Isla is the new album that Pedrito Martínez, the prolific Cuban musician, has released. This work is an encounter...
When Jerry González puts a mute onto his trumpet, the volume of his horn may be turned down a tad, but the tongues of fire that appear to lick out of the bell of his...
Presenting Michelle Pollace’s album, New Beginning Eight original themes and two arrangements of jazz and Afro-Cuban songs make up this Latin jazz work created by pianist Michelle Pollace and produced by the same Michelle and...
Live at Ronnie Scott’s, Birmingham – The 1995 BBC Recording This release is the perfect way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of probably the most influential and greatest Afro-Latin jazz band of all time, Irakere....
Exquisite music with South American folk influences, mixed with jazz sounds, and wrapped in the powerful voice and tonal beauty of Sofia Rei, that’s De Tierra y Oro. The most recent album by the Argentinian...
Fernanda Cunha is one of the best kept secrets of Brazil. Cunha is a wonderful singer with an extraordinary feel and voice suited to sing any kind of music, especially Samba and Bossa Nova. On...
…Maucha Adnet permeates the air with her velvety, warm, and passionate voice full of incomparable diction and ...
Reviewed by: Wilbert Sostre “Extracts of a Desire,” co-produced by Miguel Zenón and dedicated to his father Ramón A. Suazo, who died in 2012, certainly does not sound like a debut album. A strong command...
Mac Gollehon is not the first name that comes to mind when considering the trumpet or trombone; it is not even among the first five that come to mind, but it ought to be. Mr....