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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.
Artist Profile: Yaíma Sáez
Yaima Sáez Bejarano, is an outstanding singer of Cuban music originally from the Cuban province of Camagüey. University Graduate in Physical Culture, comes to...
Hilario Durán Awarded the Louis Applebaum Composers Award
Toronto, February 6, 2019 – Jazz Pianist and Composer, Cuban born Hilario Durán is this year’s recipient of the Louis Applebaum Composers Award. This...
Lizt Alfonso Presents “Made in Cuba” at Flato Markham Theatre
Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba is back in Canada to warm our spirits in the heart of winter! The company of 17 beautiful and technically...
Yaíma Sáez y su Grupo in Concert at Flato Markham Theatre
Yaíma Sáez's music provides a fresh and unique contemporary perspective, descending all musical genres, while paying homage to her indigenous Cuban roots. She performs...
Oscar Peñas Jazz Quartet in Concert at Aaron Davis Hall
City College Center for the Arts presents the Oscar Peñas Jazz Quartet
with special guest the Mivos Quartet
Acclaimed jazz guitarist’s Almadraba offers audiences a glimpse...
Inside Latin Jazz Featuring Eddie Montalvo
The Inside Latin Jazz series continues to offer fascinating and penetrating onstage interviews with leading Latin Jazz artists
Presented by the Ruth B. Shannon Center...
Que Vola? video series episode 1: Ramón, percussionist, son of Changó
Ramón Tamayo Martinez, barely thirty years old has been around sacred drums for as long as he remembers. Son of Changó, god of lightning...
French-Cuban Jazz Outfit “Que Vola?” Releases Debut Album
New French-Cuban jazz outfit Que Vola? is set to release their debut album, ‘¿Que Vola?’ on January 25, 2019 via French imprint Nø Førmat! (Oumou Sangaré, Mélissa Laveaux, ALA.NI, Blick Bassy).
¿Que...
Live in Concert: Armenia Meets Cuba Jazz Project
Armenian culture meets Cuban spirit for a knock-out Folk Jazz project featuring world renowned pianist Hilario Durán
Music expresses the emotions, culture and ideas of...
Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita with Gustavo Ovalles – Québec Tour
For more than 20 years now, Omar Sosa – Cuban composer and pianist and seven-time Grammy nominee – is constantly expanding his exciting discography. Transparent Water, released...
Hilario Durán & His Big Band Return to Koerner Hall on Feb 9 2019
Pianist Hilario Durán’s 20-piece Latin Jazz Big Band is joined for this Koerner Hall concert by special guests, drummer Horacio “El Negro” Hernández, and...
Big news for the 2019 Montreal International Jazz Festival!
In 2019, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, presented by TD Bank Group in collaboration with Rio Tinto, will celebrate its 40th birthday...
Dafnis Prieto To Make Historic Return To Cuba in 2019
Continuing Banner Year in 2018/19, Dafnis Prieto Big Band Earns Grammy Nomination
2018/19 is shaping up to be an extraordinary year for Cuban-born drummer, composer,...
Jazz Congress 2019 – January 7-8, 2019
Exchanging ideas to nurture and grow the jazz community
Jazz at Lincoln Center and JazzTimes have joined forces to co-produce the Jazz Congress, an annual...
globalFEST 2019 festival returns to Copacabana Times Square
Jumpstarting the Conversation: global musical perspectives reverberate at globalFEST 2019
The showcase festival of global artists returns for...
Etienne Charles Presents “Carnival: The Sound of a People Vol 1”
Shout of Light: How Composer and Trumpet Master Etienne Charles Moves from Diabolic Resistance to Liberated Joy on Carnival: The Sound of a People,...
Aguinaldo Navideño Con Salsa, Bomba Y Plena in New York
José Alberto “El Canario”, Ismael Miranda and Domingo Quiñones, with Johnny Olivo Jr. con su Herencia de Plena: A Special Holiday Celebration Presented by...
Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martínez To Release New Album
Grammy® nominated artists Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez first worked together on Alfredo’s 2012 release The Invasion Parade. Since that initial recording session, they...
MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra with special guest Paquito D’Rivera
The Manhattan School of Music has long been a fixture of the New York music scene and was one of the first United States...
Paquito D’Rivera with the Harlem Quartet at Koerner Hall
Living legend and multiple Grammy Award winner, Paquito D’Rivera, returns to Koerner Hall. On this occasion, he is joined by the Harlem Quartet, praised...