Raul Da Gama
Canadian writer. Based in Milton, Ontario, Canada, Raul is a musician and an accomplished writer whose profound analysis is reinforced by his deep understanding of music, technically as well as historically.
Gregor Huebner: Los Soñadores
To listen to the voice of The Dreamers struggling against a manic administration in the 2019 White House is not too much to ask...
Rafael Zaldivar: Consecration
This album from the Quebec-based Rafael Zaldivar entitled Consecration is completely sonically apposite to almost anything Afro-Cuban you might be used to listening to....
Various Artists: The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions
There is much anecdotal evidence – some of it apocryphal – that the Cubans brought a diabolical complexity to Jazz when the musicians among...
Ray Barretto: Standards Rican-ditioned
This album Standards Rican-ditioned by Ray Barretto has a very special – albeit tragic – place in the history and in the everlasting...
Felipe Salles: The Lullaby Project
When you are so perfectly attuned to your ancestry and your culture as Felipe Salles is then you are halfway to producing the most...
Gastón Joya: Mama Ina
A fierce energy leaps out of the opening notes of Mama Ina, the exquisitely-crafted debut album by the prodigiously-gifted bassist Gastón Joya. It is...
Omar Sosa & NDR Big Band: es:sensual
Everything about the music of Omar Sosa seems not only to say that “Tradition is a wonderful reality,” but also something else: “not understanding...
Joaju Cuarteto: Ahoraite
Few recordings that have come out of the pen of (and performances by) Paraguayan musicians have captured the frenetic effervescence of Ahoraite by the...
Espontáneo: The Abdala Sessions
Espontáneo or spontaneity is the key reason why the world falls in love with Afro-Cuban music. From the trova tradition through to performances of...
Magela Herrera: Explicaciones
Some of us are familiar with the prodigiously gifted Magela Herrera from her virtuoso flute playing on the recording I’ll See You In Cuba...
Carlos Henriquez: Dizzy con Clave
Carlos Henriquez may not be the first to (rightfully) pay tribute to Dizzy Gillespie nor will he be the last. But his is a...
Alfonso Fuentes: PLENA – improvisaciones para piano
Alfonso Fuentes is better known for his classical work that has been performed – and recorded – by musicians of some of the most...
Vocal Universo: Música Universal
Even in the #MeToo era it is still hard for women in music to attract the spotlight. Add to that the fact that it’s...
Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto: Por Causa de Você
This music is collected from a stage performance at the Triple Door in Seattle, Washington in 2015, held by the distinguished Brasilian composer and...
Chucho Valdés: Jazz Batá 2
Editor's Pick · Featured Album
When Old Man Bebo first disappeared from music in Europe and before he was re-discovered again by Paquito D’Rivera, his...
Adriano Clemente: Cuban Fires
Continuing from where he left off in his journey through the ritual magic of the Afro-Cuban musical experience some two years ago Adriano Clemente...
Etienne Charles: Carnival – The Sound of a People Vol. 1
Etienne Charles has added an important opus to the literature of contemporary music with the release of Carnival – The Sound of a People...
Paquito D’Rivera | Harlem Quartet: Music in the Rarefied Realm
The triumphant journey through music by the inimitable Paquito D’Rivera brought him to Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto on...
Eddie Daniels: Heart of Brazil
Eddie Daniels has become, without a doubt one of the finest clarinetists in the past fifty years or so. In fact, apart from Paquito...
An Evening with Jane Bunnett and Maqueque in Toronto
The curtain rose on all the polite decorum of Koerner Hall and when the evening exploded it was as if we were swept up...