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Latin Jazz Network is a project dedicated to the advancement of Latin jazz and its creators. Since 2000 LJN has been spreading the word about this wonderful music known under the umbrella term: LATIN JAZZ.
Drums for Descendants: Harlem Celebrates Puerto Rican Heritage Month
Harlem Celebrates Puerto Rican Heritage Month through the music of Afro-Rican Descendants
From the Mainland to the Homeland to New bands, Grammy Nominated Artists “Chembo”...
Pianist, Composer Sebastian Schunke Presents: Elusive Beauty
“I see Elusive Beauty as the first great work of what for me is a new aesthetic timescale and style of composition – as...
Sebastian Schunke | Diego Pinera Release New Album: Elusive Beauty
What is beauty? Artists and scientists have been tormenting themselves with this question throughout the ages. Is it regularity? Naturalness? Perfection? Pianist and composer...
Artist Profile: Sebastian Schunke
For 15 years, Sebastian Schunke has been an energetic part of the international jazz scene. Schunke is one of the young leading Jazz composers...
Amanda Martinez and Kellylee Evans in Concert at Koerner Hall
This double bill of extraordinary musicians and close friends, Amanda Martinez and Kellylee Evans, is an evening of warm flavourful jazz, Latin rhythms, roots, and...
Jamey Haddad’s Under One Sun & Cyro Baptista’s Vira Loucos
Two of the world’s greatest percussionists, Jamey Haddad and Cyro Baptista, are joined by other stellar improvisers in this double-bill of global music.
WHEN: FRIDAY,...
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture Presents: BomPlenazo Festival 2018
On Common Ground: BomPlenazo Festival Shows the Scope and Liveliness of Puerto Rico’s African-Diasporic Music and Dance
In support of Puerto Rico, the Tenth Biennial...
Chucho Valdés Announces “Jazz Batá 2” – A New Project With Old Roots
Chucho Valdés Revisits Seminal 1972 Recording Jazz Batá with a Sequel 46 Years Later
Jazz Batá 2 - Available November 16 on Mack Avenue Records
Album...
Arturo O’Farrill Journeys to the U.S.-Mexico Border on “Fandango at the Wall”
Arturo O’Farrill Journeys to the U.S.-Mexico Border to Erase Artificial Dividing Lines to Envision a Future of Inclusion and Collaboration Between Nations
Fandango at the...
Blue Engine Records announces “Una Noche con Rubén Blades”
Blue Engine Records announces the release of Una Noche con Rubén Blades from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis featuring Rubén Blades....
Artist Profile: Harold López-Nussa
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...
Artist Profile: Yilian Cañizares
Before she picks up her violin and walks onstage, Yilian Cañizares pays homage to her ancestors. Candles are lit. Prayers are said, and offerings...
Poncho Sánchez to Headline Tucson Downtown Jazz Fest 2019
TUCSON, AZ, August 16, 2018 - The line-up for the 5th annual Tucson Jazz Festival, scheduled for Jan. 11-21, 2019, continues to take shape...
Omar Sosa & Yilian Cañizares To Release New Album: “Aguas”
Pianist Omar Sosa and violinist-vocalist Yilian Cañizares have come together to create Aguas, a beautiful and very personal album. Featuring their compatriot, percussionist Inor...
Koerner Hall’s 10th Anniversary Concert Season Opening Festival
Three free concerts open the festival during Culture Days, including the popular Koerner Hall Free for All. American soprano Kathleen Battle makes her Koerner...
Saxophonist/composer Miguel Zenón releases new single: Milagrosa
Grammy-nominated saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón will release the single Milagrosa featuring Zenón and the Chicago-based internationally renowned Spektral Quartet on August 10, 2018....
Artist Profile: Alex Conde
Alex Conde is a vibrant, Flamenco and Jazz pianist, improviser, composer and music educator living in New York City. A Spaniard, Alex is a...
Toronto Jazz Fest 2018 – Five Free Concerts You Shouldn’t Miss
Macy Gray
At the start of 2009 and ten years into her career, Macy Gray found herself a free agent and on the verge of...
Artist Profile: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
The GRAMMY-award winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), led by pianist, composer, and director Arturo O’Farrill, brings together the drama of big band jazz,...
Eddie Palmieri Releases New Album: Full Circle
A titan of Latin Jazz and Salsa music, Eddie Palmieri - known as “El Maestro” - is still making musical history. The multi-Grammy Award winning...
