Feature written by: Raul da Gama The sky darkens, Lorca-like and a primordial wail rips through it. “Ai…leh leh leh…/No sé qué tendrá mi pecho/no sé qué tendrá mi pecho…/que mi voz alevanta,” she sings...
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Gabriel Guerrero – Feyas
Gabriel Guerrero is blest with a masterful musical intellect. This enables him to form gorgeous melodic ideas that seemingly appear out of nowhere to captivate the heart and mind of...
Edy Martínez, the Music Architect Behind the Piano
If you go to New York City and ask any Latin jazz legend about Edy Martínez they will tell you about him. Edy Martínez is a Colombian...
Fernando Tarrés & Lucía Pulido – Songbook III – Myths
“There is something altogether new in this record that is not present in many of Lucía Pulido’s other records. And this has to do with orchestration. This is clearly the hand of Fernando Tarrés.” There...
Celebrating 10 years of La-33
This year the Colombian band La-33 is celebrating 10 years of playing old-style salsa. After all this time there is an enviable balance for this salsa group. The band has recorded three albums, sold more than 40.000 copies independently, and toured many countries like Mexico, Venezuela, Poland, Morocco, Denmark, Canada, Italy, England, Ecuador, France, Spain, Germany, Japan, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Romania, India, Norway and the United States [...]
The Big Band Bogota at Jazz al Parque JazzFest
For two consecutive years IDARTES (District Institute for Arts in Bogota) has presented the Big Band Bogota Project which was created for the first time last year to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the International Jazz Festival “Jazz al Parque” in the city of Bogota. This is an experimental musical project in order to explore new sound possibilities of jazz music in Colombia. The project has consolidated into a great band that puts together [...]
Bettye LaVette to close Teatro Libre JazzFest
This Saturday, September 10th, Bettye LaVette will be the artist to close another edition of the Teatro Libre International Jazz Festival, in Bogota, Colombia. On this occasion, the woman with the expressive-voice, Bettye LaVette, will say goodbye to Bogota’s jazz lovers with an exciting concert at Julio Mario Santo Domingo Theater. Mrs. LaVette is going to be the last performer of this festival after nine days of concerts by recognized [...]
AJAZZGO 2011 – XI Encounter in Cali City
For seven days Cali city will enjoy more than eighty jazz artists integrated in twelve bands (four national and eight international). The festival will offer the spectators twenty-six educational and artistic activities on eight different stages; there will be eleven free concerts and workshops and fifteen shows with discount prices for students and seniors. Cali City will be the place to meet a variety of extraordinary composers, musicians and interpreters of jazz [...]
“Salsa al Parque” Festival 2011 – A Tribute to the Magical Joe Arroyo
Last weekend Bogotá, the Colombian capital, celebrated another edition of Salsa al Parque, one of the biggest salsa festivals in Latin America. This is the fourteenth time the “capitalinos” (people from Bogota) enjoyed the great...
Chucho Valdés in the Great Jazz Colombian Alliance
With a concert by the 2011 Grammy award winner, Chucho Valdes, the “Circuito de Jazz de Colombia” will be launched in Bogotá, Colombia, on June 23, at 8:00 p.m, at the Jorge Eliecer Gaitán Theatre. This jazz Colombian alliance is a group of the most prestigious jazz festivals including Festival de Jazz de Cali Ajazzgo, Festival de Jazz de Barranquilla Barranquijazz, Festival de Jazz de Medellín Medejazz, Festival de Jazz del Teatro Libre de Bogotá [...]
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