On his maiden voyage as a bandleader, playing wonderful repertoire [all] written and arranged by himself, Israel Tanenbaum has emerged as a consummate storyteller. It’s no...
When she first burst onto the musical stage, Anat Cohen laid claim to being one of the most distinctive voices among both tenor saxophonists and clarinettists....
Conrad Herwig began paying his dues in Clark Terry’s ensemble before joining Joe Henderson’s Septet, where he began to flower. Featured performances with Tom Harrell, Joe...
With each new addition to her list of albums, the Netherlands-based Cuban musician Estrella Acosta not only elevates her position among the premier vocal of our...
Omar Sosa and Marialy Pacheco… two distinct musical minds, two unique voices, but seemingly of one vision, united as if by one heart, play soulfully like...
The last several recordings by noted West Coast Afro-Caribbean percussionist John Santos have riveted listeners and critics alike. This third volume in his series – Filosofía...
The drummer and composer Fernando García is like other celebrated contemporary Puerto Rican poet-musicians [that is, musicians alive today] such as Miguel Zenón, David Sánchez and...
Globalism has been hardest on the cultures of the so-called global south, countries and cultures that have been all but economically colonized by the elite economies...
This album by Wilson “Chembo” Corniel bills itself as Artistas, Músicos y Poetas and takes its cue from all the things that a performer could be...
In the Age – flute-playing at least, shall we say – of Claire Chase it is heartening that we find ourselves in the presence of an...
The title of this album – Menjunje – is very interesting and a metaphor wholly appropriate to describe the sound of the music of Roy McGrath....
On her album Havana Nocturne, the singer Aymée Nuviola has certainly masterfully and deeply interiorized the classic Cuban music [and dance] forms of canción and the...
Of all the albums that the trumpet and flugelhorn player Rachel Therrien has released so far, Mi Hogar is the most fiery and intense. Each song...
The Portuguese-born, Brasilian-bred and Macedonia-based Amália Baraona sounds like no other chanteuse who sings in Portuguese today. There are, however, times in her singing when –...
Cuban musicians – especially those living outside the island nation – being exposed to an enormous palette of sound, have developed a worldview that has come...
