October 7, 2023 marked the release of Joey Altruda’s tour de force album, Joey Altruda Presents: El Gran Fellové, featuring legendary Cuban Jazz singer El Gran...
Before celebrating the 25th anniversary of the recording of Grammy Award nominated album Jane Bunnett: Alma de Santiago, it pays to take a step back and...
OMAR SOSA’S 88 WELL-TUNED DRUMS (Ota 1035) As a rule, I am not fond of compilations, but Omar Sosa’s 88 Well-Tuned Drums is a captivating musical...
Some of the most accomplished musicians are rarely aware of their contributions to the continuum of the art that often sustains them. This – more often...
In the vast landscape of jazz and Latin music, where innovation and tradition coalesce, Papo Vázquez emerges as a virtuoso trombonist whose music not only transcends...
Tito Puente, often referred to as the “King of Latin Music” or “El Rey,” was highly influential and one of the most important figures in the...
The 36th edition of the TD Toronto Jazz Festival has come and gone. For me, the jazz festival signifies the official start of summer and it’s...
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...
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...
There is a now famous photograph of the great Ástor Piazzolla that is iconic for so many reasons. Chief among them is the manner in which...
My moon app announces that in 14 hours the Supermoon of May will be here. During a full moon I often get inspired to write about...
