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Bobby Valentin & The LJs: Mind of a Master

Bobby Valentin & The LJs: Mind of a Master

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One of the most iconic images of the Tropical/Salsa genre has been the fiery fingers of Bobby Valentin attacking the fret board of his...
Spanglish Fly: Ay Que Boogaloo

Spanglish Fly: Ay Que Boogaloo

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Jonathan Goldman is a proverbial renaissance man who has a doppelgänger -like kinship with James Joyce, but his specialisation is even more unique. He...
Adam O'Farrill's Stranger Days: El Maquech

Adam O’Farrill’s Stranger Days: El Maquech

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Perhaps the best raison d’être – albeit in a wonderfully twisted sort of way – is that it is “tethered to nothing”. This is...
Berta Moreno: Little Steps

Berta Moreno: Little Steps

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Berta Moreno’s dream of coming to America, which she mentions in her impassioned notes that accompany the disc entitled Little Steps, have come true...

Valeria Matzner: Anima

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Looking at the package for this album by the Uruguayan-born Canadian musician Valeria Matzner one might be tempted to think that the eight songs...
Andrea Brachfeld - If Not Now, When?

Andrea Brachfeld: If Not Now, When?

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The flutist Andrea Brachfeld has made a glittering career for herself on the Latin Jazz circuit, including performances with Dave Valentin and significant recordings...

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Yoel Diaz Cubarteto: Occasion

Yoel Diaz Cubarteto: Occasion

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To Yoel Diaz, like most Cuban musicians, who were born and grew up after 1964, Jazz was probably forbidden fruit because not much of...
Victor Assis Brasil - Esperanto e Toca Antonio Carlos Jobim

Victor Assis Brasil: Esperanto / Toca Antonio Carlos Jobim

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The first point worth making is that Roberto Quartin’s 1970 recordings of Victor Assis Brasil Esperanto and Toca Antonio Carlos Jobim (now combined by...
Bill O'Connell: Jazz Latin

Bill O’Connell: Jazz Latin

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This album Jazz Latin by Bill O’Connell is – as always - like an elegant railway system linking the myriad elements of Jazz, with...
Linda Ronstadt: Frenesí

Linda Ronstadt: Frenesí

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It is one of those ironic twists of fate that Linda Ronstadt was forced into retirement in 2011, the year her seminal Afro-Caribbean album,...
Lauren Henderson: Ármame

Lauren Henderson: Ármame

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By the end of 2018 Lauren Henderson will have not one, but two, releases. The first of these is Ármame and it is...
Calle Mambo Project: See The Light

Calle Mambo Project: See The Light

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The drummer Chris Smith’s dream of making music a way of life has something of a fairytale quality to it and so does the...

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Riot - Luminato - 2018

Luminato 2018 Is Here – June 6 to 24

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Luminato is Toronto’s international arts festival dedicated to performance, media and visual arts, and programming that cuts across traditional artform boundaries. The 2018 festival takes...
Harold López-Nussa Trio

Harold López-Nussa Releases “Un Día Cualquiera”

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For more than a half-century, the embrace between Cuba and the United States has been subject to an odd dance of politics, including a...
Chano & Colina

Javier Colina & Chano Domínguez Release “Chano & Colina”

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There are bonds that cannot be broken. Brotherhood and musical understanding are two such bonds. Pianist Chano Dominguez and bassist Javier Colina grew up...

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Toronto Jazz Fest 2018 – Five Paid Concerts You Shouldn’t Miss

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Seal featuring music from his new cd "Standards" Much like the legends who originally popularized them, Seal sounds right at home singing the classics that...
Chano Dominguez Announces 2018 U.S. Tour Dates

Chano Dominguez Announces 2018 U.S. Tour Dates

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Grammy-Nominated Flamenco Jazz Pianist Returns to West Coast & Select Cities in May and June Chano Dominguez Quintet To Perform Flamenco Sketches and Debut Piano Ibérico For over 40...
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Luminato Presents: Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

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Luminato is Toronto’s international arts festival dedicated to performance, media and visual arts, and programming that cuts across traditional artform boundaries. Luminato works closely...

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