11-Track Project Spotlights a Collection of Originals, Latin and Jazz Standards OKeh releases GRAMMY®, Emmy®, and Latin GRAMMY® Award winning pianist and composer Michel Camilo’s new album, What’s Up?, on May 14, 2013. The project...
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Body and Soul: The Art of the late Charles Flores
There is a moment on Dizzy Gillespie’s “Con Alma” that was played by the Michel Camilo Trio at the 39th Internationale Jazzwoche, 2008 in Burghausen, Germany when music is heard at its purest. There are...
2012 Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Fest: Review
Thursday, March 29, 2012 The 22nd edition of the Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Fest started exactly at 8pm Thursday, March 29. (Usually this fest takes place the last week of May). The opening act for...
Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Fest 2012
Change of dates for the Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Fest 2012 The Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival celebrates it’s 22nd edition, starting March 29 until April 1 in the Tito Puente Amphitheatre, San Juan, Puerto...
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 [...]
Latin Jazz Network Radio – Jukebox – August 2011 Playlist
Jukebox - August 2011 Playlist: Afrodisian Orchestra, Kiki Sánchez, Grupo Falso Baiano, Luis Bonilla, Michel Camilo, Maria Jameau, Jerry Gonzalez y Los Comandos de la Clave, David Sánchez, Stefon Harris, Christian Scott,Javier Colina Trío & Silvia Pérez, Yamandú Costa e Hamilton de Holanda [...]
2010 Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival
Photographer Carlos Haddock has been documenting the culture and music of New York and Puerto Rico for nearly three decades. His photographs have been exhibited at the Manners of Fine Art Gallery in New York and the Bienal de Fotografia in Puerto Rico. In addition, he was awarded a trophy by The Association of Photojournalists in Puerto Rico for his photographs of Festival de Jueyes, Maunabo (2002) [...]
Federico Britos – Voyage (Sunnyside Records – 2010)
As the world continues to awake to the rising tide of undiscovered music and musicians from the South American paradigm—in an almost ironic kind of reversal of Alejo Carpentier’s voyage of musical discovery in Los Pasos Perdidos (E.D.I.A.P.S.A, 1953) or to the English-speaking world The Lost Steps (Alfred Knopf, 1956, Univ. of Minnesota, 2001)—the Cuban violinist Federico Britos celebrates five decades in the lonely and all but forgotten [...]