The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 10, 2013, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. After a long battle to have reinstated the “Best Latin Jazz Album” category -which had been wrongly and arbitrarily eliminated- it was...
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Bobby Sanabria Big Band – Multiverse
There are few drummers today who have as much energy and imagination as Bobby Sanabria. He is a percussion colourist of the highest order and his palette is so wide as to encompass all manner...
Noteworthy Recordings of 2011
This is the recording that Maraca’s fans have been waiting for. Recorded live at the Grand Theater in Havana, Cuba (2010), it presents Maraca’s collaboration with the Havana Chamber Orchestra and includes standout contributions from pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa, Japanese violinist Sayaka, saxophonist David Sanchez, drummer Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez, percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo and others. The recording takes the listener on a musical journey [...]
Grammy Culture War – Artist Soul Speaks
May 22nd’s press conference at the Nuyorican Poets Café in NYC was energized by the presence of some of the world’s greatest musicians. Accusations of cultural genocide, ignorance, greed – and a plea to save the Grammy’s from itself – specifically, by recanting the recent action of the NARAS Board to eliminate 31 Grammy categories. The eliminated categories include not only Latin Jazz, Native American, Zydeco and Polka [...]
Latin Jazz Network Radio – Jukebox – May 2011 Playlist
Jukebox - May 2011 Playlist: André Vasconcellos, Art Ovrutski Quintet, Arturo O'Farril & ALJO, Arturo Sandoval, Bobby Matos, Bobby Sanabria, Brian Lynch, Charito, Daniel Amat, Daniel Smith, Diego Urcola, John Santos y el Grupo Folklorico Kindembo, Mambo Legends Orchestra, Mark Weinstein, Patty Ascher, Peter Scharli Trio, Putumayo, Swing en 4, Tiempo Libre, Wayne Wallace [...]
Gabriele Tranchina – A Song of Love’s Color (Jazzheads – 2010)
It appears that exacting pitch is not really important in the grander scheme of things, for Gabriele Tranchina’s singing. Although it seems likely that if she really wanted to this vocalist could nail the exacting pitch of the notes themselves with perfection, Tranchina eschews the exactitude of notation to scale impossible heights of emotion. In this respect she is like a storyteller who uses lyric passages to let tales of longing and other elusive emotions unfold [...]