Danilo Pérez began forming his worldview – and aligning his music to it – ever since he came under the sphere of influence of Dizzy Gillespie....
What can you say about the album Mélange by Kalí Rodríguez-Peña? So many things, really… For one: it’s the kind of album that instantly leaps out...
The best way to listen to Desde Lejos by the Dominican Jazz Project is by cranking up the volume on your stereo. As the notes of...
The reeds and woodwinds artist Alexey León is easily one of the most refreshing voices in Afro-Cuban music. His playing may be characterised by the virile...
Josean Jacobo has a pianistic voice that cries out to be heard as the young composer, arranger and performing pianist unleashes his thunderous left hand melodies...
If, as has been said, chamber music is a conversation among friends then this is not only a lively one but also a very wide-ranging one...
The 35th Jazz Plaza 2020 opened with an explosive tribute to one of the greatest names in Afro-Cuban music: Juan Formell & Los Van Van. It...
There can be no question that the world of modern – Jazz – guitar would not be quite the same without [first] Charlie Christian, and [then]...
Before you even hear the first note on Bámbula by the contrabassist Alex “Apolo” Ayala, you can almost feel the weight of the music that is...
We hear so much Afro-Cuban music these days that we may sometimes run the risk of forgetting that no matter whether it is played as romantically...
Over the years Oscar Hernández has been the flag bearer, not simply of the music of the Spanish Harlem Orchestra but of the very sound of...
The dazzling virtuosity combined with the immediacy of the pianism that Pepe Rivero brings to this music, as well as the dark and seductive lyricism of...
One of the greatest and everlasting legacies of Johann Sebastian Bach is his invention of bass line melodies – especially his writing for more than one...
Spain may have been considered proverbial diadem of the world, between the 7th and 11th centuries, when the Umayyad rulers established the burgeoning Arabic influence across...
Colonisation of the Americas and the Caribbean has done little to stifle the traditional cultures of the colonised. If anything it has pushed a people’s voice...
