It is not often that music—even some of the finest on record, like a highly imaginative novel—evokes powerful visuals, but when it does the result can be utterly enchanting. The magic of music is what makes Our Thing , this...
Amid the pomp and circumstance of the releases of a myriad of new recordings in 2012, the releases of two significant records will forever be burned in the memory. The first is "Echoes of Indiana Avenue"...
In an age when Man clings on to the things that a comic book superhero stands for—both in the print and on film media—it is almost as if the only living and superior-thinking thinking work...
José Negroni’s piano playing is unique. Although he can be lithe and delicate in his expression his touch is generally heavier, almost like the hand of a conguero. Of course he is not that instrumentalist...
First, and probably most unique of all, was Evans’ capacity to “hear and discern” the sounds that swirled around his head. Here he in the sole company of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus in the...
When Yuri Juárez plays a guitar, his touch is so full of soul and his expression and technique so sensual that his playing is reminiscent of a Don Juan caressing every nook and cranny of...
Duduka Da Fonseca brings something altogether new and exciting to the art of drumming: a flair for...
There is something delightfully elusive about the voice of Anna Estrada. It is almost like the splash of a rare demi-sec gliding in the inner recesses of the taste buds as it lingers for just awhile before vanishing into the...
The sweet, warm breath swirls through the woody innards of the clarinet and bass clarinet, just as it does through the burnished and gleaming bodies of the soprano and tenor, when she switches to saxophones....
The song selection and the effective use of the synthesizer on Ithamara Koorax new release "Got to be real" gives the album a vintage 70s feel. The first half of the album starting with the slow, sexy, smooth jazz arrangement...