In the words of bandleader Jan Kus, ‘Moving Up’ is a song about optimism and determination: “This song is a sort of Slavo-Rican anthem. It’s about...
“That Dafnis Prieto has undertaken an epic musical voyage is clear from the music on this disc. Back to the Sunset, is the culmination of a...
We present the first single ‘Soul Searching’ from Carmen Souza’s upcoming album The Silver Messengers, to be released next October. ‘Soul Searching’ is a tribute to...
Award-winning composer John Finbury and singer-lyricist Thalma de Freitas team up for the first time on Sorte! Their new album of Brazilian-flaired Latin Jazz songs was...
Not long ago, I was interviewing two important contributors to the world of American music and letters – Eddie Palmieri and the other was Joe Conzo...
2018 was a very prolific year in terms of music being released. It was a year of excellency, in terms of great new music being created....
2018 was a very prolific year in terms of music being released. It was a year of excellency, in terms of great new music being created....
Brazil meets Cuba, a time for Markham and GTA residents to come in from the cold for what was promised to be some hot sounds on...
The extraordinary Peruvian producer, composer, arranger, educator and pianist Luis Enrique “Kiki” Sanchez can capture the hearts of many through his skillful rhythmic pianism, a unique...
2018 was a very prolific year in terms of music being released. It was a year of excellency, in terms of great new music being created....
Ramón Tamayo Martinez, barely thirty years old has been around sacred drums for as long as he remembers. Son of Changó, god of lightning and war,...
The curtain rose on all the polite decorum of Koerner Hall and when the evening exploded it was as if we were swept up in the...
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 know I...
Depending on where you come from Martha Argerich may be the greatest Argentinean icon. Some say Juan and Evita Perón are, but culturally speaking, perhaps not....
“It may be no surprise that many listeners may not have heard of the Puerto Rican tenor saxophonist Roy McGrath. But it is also no surprise...
