“In every sense Phillipe Baden Powell is one of those musicians who reminds the rest of the world that there is a new musical force emanating...
Clarice Assad is quite simply a phenomenon who has streaked across the world’s musical landscape like one of those comets that appears just once in a...
An Affair to RememberConcert Review: Luciana Souza & Romero Lubambo No matter where in the world you come from or live, the seductive lure of Brasil...
This record by a very special artist will go down as one of the most significant works of music. Its power, significance and beauty will forever...
The artistic goldmine that is Cuba continues to give up its riches. Even before Machito was “discovered” by Dizzy Gillespie (and much later, Gonzalo Rubalcaba) there...
It might seem foolhardy to many to take a chance and make an entire record based on “charanga”; perceived as rather old-fashioned too considering the rising...
“Happily, there are two new charts on this double CD. The first is “Gotcha”, a delightful song that mixes the New Orleans dirge with an ecstatic...
“Piazzolla originals are played with new élan and the ones that must have incurred the ire of the late master—“Laura” and “Lullaby of Birdland”—are re-imagined with...
Yesterday, my eighty-eight year old mother and I were reminiscing as we often do when she visits, about, among other things, my father and his love...
Pianist and composer Sebastian Schunke appears to have discovered a sense of mortality. This is the ultimate level of maturity that any artist—or any human being...
Review written by: Raul da Gama It will always remain one of those travesties of history that cultural exchanges—especially musical ones –between Europe and the orient...
That Ark Ovrutski is following his heart in pursuing the art of music is creditable. But that he has made it his mission to play the...
Review written by: Raul da Gama This extraordinary trio distills the essential emotions of the music they make to such an extent that only the absolute...
Everything about “Generation Y,” that generation that came after the baby boomers spelt “Generation Me”. These millennials are not as special as they thought they were....
Helio Alves is a pianist whose playing is marked by the unsurpassed beauty of expression. The poetry of this expression is pronounced and manifests itself in...
