SpokFrevo Live at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Direct from the city of Recife in Northeastern Brazil, the SpokFrevo Orquestra debuted at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s three-day Brazilian Festival...
#SJZSummerFest: Glen David Andrews Band
Saturday, August 8, 2015 (Day 2)
Kaiser Permanente Main Stage
One of the delights of covering a music festival is discovering talent worthy of wider recognition....
Diego Figueiredo and Chuchito Valdés: Brazil Meets Cuba
Combining two of the most exciting artists in Latin jazz creates an explosion of music and crazed fans. Diego Figueiredo is considered one of...
Elio Villafranca: Revealing the Secrets of Slavery
In the newly-crowded world of Afro-Caribbean music, where instrumentalists have always reigned supreme, the singularity of the composer is suddenly in the limelight. We...
Brampton Global Jazz & Blues Fest Report
Brampton Global Jazz & Blues Festival – Art of Jazz Celebration Branford Marsalis Quartet, Rose Theatre, Brampton, On. August 11, 2012 The Branford...
The Revolutionary Art of Tony Martinez
In the rush to embrace Cuba much of what makes it both disappointing and great is often washed away like dirty linen. The Castro...
Omar Sosa Live At The Blue Note
Composer, pianist, bandleader Omar Sosa has a gift for transforming a performance into an event. He and his Afro Cuban Quartet demonstrated as much...
Francisco Mora Catlett and Afro Horn, the 3rd Incarnation
“There are only three Afro-Horns in the world. They were forged from a rare metal found only in Africa and South America. No one...
Old Man Bebo is sleeping
There is a metaphor that I cannot get out of my mind: It is one of the roars of the river. I hear it incessantly as if it were vying for the sound of silence in which I hear whispers of the name of the man his mother and father named...
Our Man From La Habana – Cándido Camero: Uno De Los Nuestros
Por Chico Alvarez Peraza
ciudad de Nueva York, abril 22, 2010
80 AÑOS POR EL SENDERO DEL EXITO
Con esta edición, Latin Jazz Network rinde homenaje a...
“Si Va’Llover” and the Advent of Música Artesanal
Henry Cole & Villa Locura release a new song featuring Alex López ‘El Callejero’ – “Si Va’Llover” – and a new form of making...
Diego El Cigala Pays Tribute to the Soul and Spirit of Salsa Music
"Diego Ramón Jiménez Salazar (born in Madrid, on December 27, 1968), known as El Cigala (Spanish for 'Norway Lobster', a popular crustacean in Spain),...
2016 Latin Grammys Best Latin Jazz Album
The 17th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards returns to Las Vegas
The big event will take place at the T-Mobile Arena on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016,...
Festival Report: Mayagüez Jazz Festival 2012
The last Jazz Festival of the year 2012 in Puerto Rico was without a doubt a great success. Three days of good jazz in...
Emilie-Claire Barlow at Koerner Hall – Dec 17, 2017
A Class Act
Another first for me, a Christmas holiday show to see a Canadian jazz chanteuse. A debut concert at the Royal Conservatory in...
Elio Villafranca: Epic Journey in search of Cinque
There has always been a healthy restlessness to Elio Villafranca. When I spoke to him in February 2015 he was about to debut a...
Chano Domínguez: Prism of Duende
Some twenty-eight minutes into our conversation Chano Domínguez lets me go gently. “Raul, I have to let you go,” he tells me, “But you...
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...
Jazz Plaza 2020: Speaking in Tongues
Chapter three of our series: 35th Jazz Plaza International Festival in Havana
In 1972, former University of Toronto professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Michael J....
Jane Bunnett and The Cuban Piano Masters at Koerner Hall
This unique musical group was first conceived in Havana, Cuba in 1992 at the National Theatre with the great Cuban pianists José María Vitier and the late Frank Emilio. It was brought to fruition in Canada in 1993 with a ground-breaking concert at the Glenn Gould Theatre (CBC) and became Jane Bunnett's recording debut for EMI/Bluenote [...]