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...
When musicians with strong personalities and voices collide, it is often the case that the communal importance of music is forgotten. But not with these fine...
Ancestros is a trilogy of albums recorded by the Cuban group Síntesis. The first album came out in 1987, it was groundbreaking, and one of the...
Listening to the music of Siempre Más Allá, it certainly seems that the young French pianist, Adrien Brandeis has strengthened the belief that he is a...
It should come as no surprise that the seduction of Afro Cuban music has turned up in the Balkan country of Croatia too. The delightful surprise,...
Not since Flora Purim, the otherworldly-sounding vocalist celebrated for her work with the legendary percussionist Airto Moreira and Chick Corea [cue 500 Miles High from the...
If Brasilian music has spread – across continents – and has been kept alive as far as Japan, thanks to the Choro Club of Japan, it...
What’s not to love about Kind of Rose, an album by the Brasilian vocalist Rosa Avilla. Her’s is the kind of voice that you would hear...
What a marvellous recital this is by Andrea Brachfeld & Insight. It features swinging, rollicking and often profound repertoire played with precision, sensitivity and a touch...
There may be many singers more famous – even lionised – than Lauren Henderson. But not a single one in recent memory can beguile the senses...
Every once and a while a recording comes along that is so spectacular that you may want to unabashedly dance to the music in the street,...
The album Urbanessence – the sophomore recording by trumpeter Tito Carrillo – is his musical palimpsest. Rich in colour, texture and with the radiant timbre of...
Just when you think that the offerings of pianists in the setting of a piano trio is becoming a tad tired, along comes a recording that...
There may be many alto saxophonists born into the musical topography of Afro-Caribbean music, all of whom boast singular voices, but none with voices as distinctive...
