The 36th edition of the TD Toronto Jazz Festival has come and gone. For me, the jazz festival signifies the...
After nine years of work, Kathryn Golden was finally able to screen her documentary film SANTOS: Skin to Skin and it was definitely worth the wait....
The close creative partnership between the inimitable Argentinian vocalist Roxana Amed and the intrepid New York-based composer and pianist Frank Carlberg is immediately heard in the...
Bossa Nova was the most important musical movement to come out of Brazil in the 20th Century. It attracted dozens of composers, singers and musicians who...
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...
After producing over 50 albums for other artists in Puerto Rico, Colombia and the U.S., participating as pianist-arranger in more than 100 recordings and writing music...
Mario Rivera was a gifted musician, composer and arranger that played more than 15 instruments, which included piano, vibraphone, drums, trumpet, timbales, congas, flute, and piccolo....
10 Days of Free Shows — Say What! My TD Toronto Jazz Festival started mid festival, Tuesday, June 28th, early evening. It was all about Juno...
My first time back in Koerner Hall in over 2 years and the Gregory Porter band set to perform for me and a sold out audience...
Danilo Pérez began forming his worldview – and aligning his music to it – ever since he came under the sphere of influence of Dizzy Gillespie....
Hilton Ruiz (May 29, 1952 – June 6, 2006) was a Nuyorican jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player....
Miguelo Valdés & The New Messengers Of Feeling Miguel Valdés, or “Miguelo”, as he has since become known, was born in the province of La Habana,...
Preamble Within the current renaissance of popular Cuban music, coupled with the seemingly eternal presence of its first cousin American Jazz, we are once again witnessing...
Pianist, composer and arranger Carlos Cippelletti, is a promising young Spanish, Franco-Cuban artist from the last generation of Afro-Cuban jazz musicians born outside the island. He...
After dark they gather, the spirits of Havana. Is that a ghostly, but fatback-toned rapping down in the barrio where the great composer and percussionist Chano...
