The title of this album – Menjunje – is very interesting and a metaphor wholly appropriate to describe the sound...
On her album Havana Nocturne, the singer Aymée Nuviola has certainly masterfully and deeply interiorized the classic Cuban music [and dance] forms of canción and the...
Of all the albums that the trumpet and flugelhorn player Rachel Therrien has released so far, Mi Hogar is the most fiery and intense. Each song...
The Portuguese-born, Brasilian-bred and Macedonia-based Amália Baraona sounds like no other chanteuse who sings in Portuguese today. There are, however, times in her singing when –...
Cuban musicians – especially those living outside the island nation – being exposed to an enormous palette of sound, have developed a worldview that has come...
When musicians with strong personalities and voices collide, it is often the case that the communal importance of music is forgotten. But not with these fine...
Ancestros is a trilogy of albums recorded by the Cuban group Síntesis. The first album came out in 1987, it was groundbreaking, and one of the...
Listening to the music of Siempre Más Allá, it certainly seems that the young French pianist, Adrien Brandeis has strengthened the belief that he is a...
It should come as no surprise that the seduction of Afro Cuban music has turned up in the Balkan country of Croatia too. The delightful surprise,...
Not since Flora Purim, the otherworldly-sounding vocalist celebrated for her work with the legendary percussionist Airto Moreira and Chick Corea [cue 500 Miles High from the...
If Brasilian music has spread – across continents – and has been kept alive as far as Japan, thanks to the Choro Club of Japan, it...
What’s not to love about Kind of Rose, an album by the Brasilian vocalist Rosa Avilla. Her’s is the kind of voice that you would hear...
What a marvellous recital this is by Andrea Brachfeld & Insight. It features swinging, rollicking and often profound repertoire played with precision, sensitivity and a touch...
There may be many singers more famous – even lionised – than Lauren Henderson. But not a single one in recent memory can beguile the senses...
Every once and a while a recording comes along that is so spectacular that you may want to unabashedly dance to the music in the street,...
