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Raul Da Gama

Based in Milton, Ontario, Canada, Raul is a poet, musician and an accomplished critic whose profound analysis is reinforced by his deep understanding of music, technically as well as historically.
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Horacio “El Negro” Hernández: Italuba Big Band

Of all the Afro-Cuban musicians playing the “conventional” North American – or “Jazz” – drum sets there...
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Yelsy Heredia: Lo Nuestro

There are few musicians more eminently qualified to revisit changüí – that unique Afro-Cuban dance-narrative form –...
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Real Project: GES

Editor's note: Real Project won a Cubadisco 2021 Award for this album, GES in the category...
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Grecolandia: Homenaje a José Miguel Crego “El Greco”

The name of José Miguel Crego "El Greco" is a familiar one to those who view the...
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Los Muñequitos de Matanzas: La Bandera de mi Tierra

The faux-image of rumba as a glitzy ballroom-dance is mostly one made in North-America . The genuine...
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Miguel de Armas Quartet: Continuous

Miguel de Armas has always come across as a musical voluptuary, born of a kind of rhythmically...
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Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra: Virtual Birdland

Arturo O’Farrill has – for a very long time – been exploring long-form composition and using it...
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Charlie Sepúlveda & The Turnaround: This is Latin Jazz

This music by Charlie Sepúlveda has the indelible stamp of the Afro-Caribbean rhythms that makes the music...
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Enrique Rodríguez: Enriquito – Me Quito El Sombrero

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Conventional wisdom might suggest that there can be no Spanish music—especially that, which derives from traditional Flamenco sounds—without the lead voice being a Spanish...

Gilberto Gil · Gilberto’s Samba

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Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his...

Roberto López Afro-Colombian Jazz Orchestra: Azul

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Montréal has been called “Canada’s Cultural Capital”, and rightfully so. A fertile terrain for musical talent from all over the world, the second largest Canadian city is home to Roberto López since 1994, when he arrived to pursue...

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Eddie Palmieri Brings Down The House at Koerner Hall in Toronto

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There is something very special about sharing a moment in time and space with a legend, an artist –a consummate musician- who has transcended...

In Conversation With Francisco Mora-Catlett

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“Music is about freedom, that’s what it proposes, that’s why it’s so popular and that’s why people love it. And it’s not freedom that...

Chico O’Farrill: The Afro-Cuban Jazz Suites 1 and 2

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Arturo “Chico” O’Farrill, who was born in Cuba in 1921, decided to follow family tradition and enter into law practice. But before he could...

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