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...
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Antonio Serrano & Federico Lechner – La Extraña Pareja
If Toots Thielemans set the stage for the classic birth of the chromatic harmonica in music then its reincarnation was set about by Hendrik Meurkens. Now a new generation is tearing up what is rationally...
Jerry González y El Comando de la Clave
When considering living modern masters of the trumpet, ubiquitous in the world of brass, Wynton Marsalis comes to mind first; and Terence Blanchard perhaps, but certainly not Jerry González. This is a travesty, because in...
Download Free Songs from Alain Perez
For a limited time you can download free songs from Cuban artist Alain Pérez About Alain Alain Pérez Rodríguez was born in Trinidad in 1977, in the province of Santi Spiritus, Cuba. As a child...
Chucho Valdés and The Afro-Cuban Messengers
Chucho Valdes and The Afro-Cuban Messengers Live at the San Javier Jazz Festival 2010. Murcia, Spain.
Chico & Rita – Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal – TIFF 2010
Chico & Rita – Animated movie by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal 2010 Toronto International Film Festival Review written by Danilo Navas A seemingly ordinary, but tormented love story between a pianist and a singer,...
Josep Soto – Groc (Temps Records 2008)
Groc is an unusual record. It is a Josep Soto’s not-so-secret and masterful way acknowledging the collision of Spanish music with the music of cultures that Spain, Portugal and other Latin countries set out to influence when they colonized the New World. Uniquely the Spanish music that Soto has experienced grew and cross-pollinated with Argentinean, Brasilian, Cuban [...]