Cuban alto saxophonists playing Afro-Cuban music – even Black American Music in the Afro-Cuban idiom – are well known. The...
In a couple of months, we will turn the bend to 2024. The thought does arise: Hadn’t we better leave the pandemic and its horrors in...
It goes without saying that siblings who share that special something that artistic inspiration brings, almost always produce – in return – art that intrigues, and...
To the iconic composer, drummer, and bandleader, Bobby Sanabria who leads – proverbially and literally – from the front, The Multiverse is a living metaphor created...
Having given excellent versions of themselves – individually or together in some of the most celebrated ensembles [Roy Haynes, Charlie Haden, Chick Corea, Eddie Palmieri, Carla...
Of all the recordings that Sammy Figueroa has made in his life this one – Searching for a Memory – must certainly have been the most...
The one thing you can be assured when you listen to music – new or re-interpreted – by Doug Beavers, is that it’s going to be...
Somehow, I suspect that Jane Bunnett and Larry Cramer [the two are joined at the musical hip] never doubted that Maqueque, this fiery, spirited all-woman Afro-Cuban...
The last two recordings by Greg Diamond – Calera: Solo Sessions [2022] and, now the trio recording, Beata – have showed us in no uncertain terms...
The sea makes its appearance as a metaphor once again in another album by the itinerant pianist and composer Emilio Solla, this time in a more...
Down the ages, poets, writers of prose, dramatists, painters and sculptors have often made social commentary central to their work in theme idiom and execution; less...
The musical journey of the consummate pianist and erudite composer, Elio Villafranca may be described as nothing if not what the celebrated Victor Frankl described in...
The distinctive voice of Magos Herrera – a opalescent mezzo – glows like a beam of soft light through the monumental complexity of this bittersweet repertoire...
When she first burst onto the musical stage, Anat Cohen laid claim to being one of the most distinctive voices among both tenor saxophonists and clarinettists....
With each new addition to her list of albums, the Netherlands-based Cuban musician Estrella Acosta not only elevates her position among the premier vocal of our...
