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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.
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...
Artist Profile: Eddie Palmieri
Known as one of the finest pianists of the past 60 years, Eddie Palmieri is a bandleader, arranger and composer of salsa and Latin...
Luminato 2018 Is Here – June 6 to 24
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 Releases “Un Día Cualquiera”
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...
Toronto Jazz Fest 2018 – Five Paid Concerts You Shouldn’t Miss
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
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...
Luminato Presents: Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
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...
Artist Profile: Chano Domínguez
For over four decades, the Award-winning , Spanish-born pianist, composer, bandleader, educator Chano Domínguez has synthesized the blues-based, African-American improvisations of jazz with the...
Javier Colina & Chano Domínguez Release “Chano & Colina”
There are bonds that cannot be broken. Brotherhood and musical understanding are two such bonds. Pianist Chano Dominguez and bassist Javier Colina grew up...
2018 Lulaworld Festival @ Lula Lounge in Toronto
May 31 to June 10 at Lula Lounge and June 1 & 2 at Dundas West Fest.
Each year the LULAWORLD festival showcases new work...
New Release by Alex Conde: Origins
ORIGINS by Alex Conde
ORIGINS is a fusion album from the roots and elements of flamenco (bulerías, soleáres), afro-cuban (guaguancó and rumba) and american jazz...
Artist Profile: Pedro Giraudo
Originally from Córdoba Argentina, Pedro Giraudo moved to New York City in 1996. Since then he has become a highly versatile bassist, composer and...
Artist Profile: Jahaziel Arrocha
Jahaziel Arrocha was born in Panama city on September 27th 1988. He started playing the saxophone in the high school music band of Monseñor...
Orquesta Akokán – Un Tabaco para Elegua
From the self-titled debut album Orquesta Akokán, out now on Daptone Records. Recorded in Havana, Daptone Records taps into the soul of Cuba with...
Artist Profile: Justo Almario
Justo Almario is a multi-instrumentalist at the highest caliber, Music Educator, Musical Director, Composer, Arranger and Clinician, Justo’s influences include John Coltrane, Antonio Carlos...
