On Saturday, May 6 and Sunday, May 7 2023, we have a rare opportunity to experience live in concert two...
Born in Santiago de Cuba, Jorge Vistel and Maikel Vistel are the reflection of a type of eclectic Jazz that manages to reconcile values, ideas, trends,...
PAZCUAL VILLARONGA was born and raised in Spanish Harlem, New York. He attended Haaren High School and New York City Community College and graduated from Hunter College,...
Fran Vielma has toured around the continent with his star-studded Venezuelan Jazz Collective. His latest release Tendencias includes Vielma’s original works and arrangements featuring Miguel Zenón,...
There is a segment in the short, documentary film “Regresar – Back in Cuba” (2019) where Dafnis Prieto says to a contingent of students, “When I...
El pianista, compositor y arreglista Carlos Cippelletti, es una joven promesa española, franco-cubana de la última generación de jazzistas afrocubanos nacidos fuera de la isla. Es...
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...
In January of last year, 2020, I had the opportunity to travel to Havana with my colleague, the renowned writer and cultural chronicler Raul Da Gama....
Earlier this year – in July to be precise – I critiqued an amazing recording by Mafalda Minnozzi. The album was entitled Sensorial, a word that...
Tony Succar could have been a professional sportsman – a football [soccer] player to be precise. Two things kept the Peruvian-American from making his dreams a...
Mart’nália’s eyes are like large, limpid pools. They draw you into their world. Once you’re in, the quietude of this portal opens out into the vivacious...
As a follow up to our Carib album review we present a Q&A with David Sánchez expanding on some topics around this wonderful project, which is...
DN: Hi Marlon, welcome back to the musical scene, we at latinjazznet.com are very excited about your return and avid to know more about your upcoming...
Conversation with Lizt Alfonso: Dancer, Company Founder, Director, Choreographer Extraordinaire By Patricia Bell-Newson According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Cuban dancer and choreographer Lizt Alfonso...
There has always been a healthy restlessness to Elio Villafranca. When I spoke to him in February 2015 he was about to debut a new suite...
