Chucho Valdés named 2019 Harvard Jazz Master-in-Residence
Pianist Chucho Valdés – six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Latin Grammy Award Winner – has been named 2019 Jazz Master in Residence at...
Josean Jacobo & Tumbao Release New Album: “Cimarrón”
Josean Jacobo & Tumbao Integrate Afro-Descendant Folkloric Idioms on New Jazz Album, Cimarrón
Hailed as “The Ambassador of Afro-Dominican Jazz”, pianist, composer and arranger Josean...
Worldwide Celebration of International Jazz Day 2019, 30 April
Global Concert in Melbourne, Australia Will Feature Over 30 World-Renowned Artists Including Herbie Hancock, James Morrison, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Kurt Elling
Paris and Washington, D.C....
Hilario Durán Awarded the Louis Applebaum Composers Award
Toronto, February 6, 2019 – Jazz Pianist and Composer, Cuban born Hilario Durán is this year’s recipient of the Louis Applebaum Composers Award. This...
Oscar Peñas Jazz Quartet in Concert at Aaron Davis Hall
City College Center for the Arts presents the Oscar Peñas Jazz Quartet
with special guest the Mivos Quartet
Acclaimed jazz guitarist’s Almadraba offers audiences a glimpse...
Inside Latin Jazz Featuring Eddie Montalvo
The Inside Latin Jazz series continues to offer fascinating and penetrating onstage interviews with leading Latin Jazz artists
Presented by the Ruth B. Shannon Center...
French-Cuban Jazz Outfit “Que Vola?” Releases Debut Album
New French-Cuban jazz outfit Que Vola? is set to release their debut album, ‘¿Que Vola?’ on January 25, 2019 via French imprint Nø Førmat! (Oumou Sangaré, Mélissa Laveaux, ALA.NI, Blick Bassy).
¿Que...
Big news for the 2019 Montreal International Jazz Festival!
In 2019, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, presented by TD Bank Group in collaboration with Rio Tinto, will celebrate its 40th birthday...
Dafnis Prieto To Make Historic Return To Cuba in 2019
Continuing Banner Year in 2018/19, Dafnis Prieto Big Band Earns Grammy Nomination
2018/19 is shaping up to be an extraordinary year for Cuban-born drummer, composer,...
globalFEST 2019 festival returns to Copacabana Times Square
Jumpstarting the Conversation: global musical perspectives reverberate at globalFEST 2019
The showcase festival of global artists returns for...
Etienne Charles Presents “Carnival: The Sound of a People Vol 1”
Shout of Light: How Composer and Trumpet Master Etienne Charles Moves from Diabolic Resistance to Liberated Joy on Carnival: The Sound of a People,...
Aguinaldo Navideño Con Salsa, Bomba Y Plena in New York
José Alberto “El Canario”, Ismael Miranda and Domingo Quiñones, with Johnny Olivo Jr. con su Herencia de Plena: A Special Holiday Celebration Presented by...
Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martínez To Release New Album
Grammy® nominated artists Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez first worked together on Alfredo’s 2012 release The Invasion Parade. Since that initial recording session, they...
David Virelles’ New Album: Igbó Alákorin (The Singer’s Grove) Vol. I & II
Igbó Aláko?rin (The Singer’s Grove) Vol. I and II by David Virelles
Igbó Alákorin (a phrase in Yoruba which can be loosely translated as The...
Craft Recordings to Release “The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions”
Craft Recordings is proud to announce the release of The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions 5-LP and 5-CD box sets on November 9, 2018. Compiled...
Sebastian Schunke | Diego Pinera Release New Album: Elusive Beauty
What is beauty? Artists and scientists have been tormenting themselves with this question throughout the ages. Is it regularity? Naturalness? Perfection? Pianist and composer...
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture Presents: BomPlenazo Festival 2018
On Common Ground: BomPlenazo Festival Shows the Scope and Liveliness of Puerto Rico’s African-Diasporic Music and Dance
In support of Puerto Rico, the Tenth Biennial...
Chucho Valdés Announces “Jazz Batá 2” – A New Project With Old Roots
Chucho Valdés Revisits Seminal 1972 Recording Jazz Batá with a Sequel 46 Years Later
Jazz Batá 2 - Available November 16 on Mack Avenue Records
Album...
Arturo O’Farrill Journeys to the U.S.-Mexico Border on “Fandango at the Wall”
Arturo O’Farrill Journeys to the U.S.-Mexico Border to Erase Artificial Dividing Lines to Envision a Future of Inclusion and Collaboration Between Nations
Fandango at the...
Blue Engine Records announces “Una Noche con Rubén Blades”
Blue Engine Records announces the release of Una Noche con Rubén Blades from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis featuring Rubén Blades....
