No matter what setting he is performing in, whenever Harold López-Nussa is engaged in performance you can be rest assured of music where the grace and...
Chico Pinheiro’s album City of Dreams – so appropriately entitled for 2020 – is spectacular and proves that even in a very crowded field [especially for...
A rare, albeit singular feeling of joy while living under a lockdown due to the pandemic is the receipt, in the mail, of a recording by...
The drummer Robby Ameen’s 3rd recording Diluvio explodes with atomic energy right off the blocks with the celebrated rhythmist striking a particularly pose with positively insolent...
Any recording by the inimitable César Orozco & Kamarata Jazz would be one to look forward to, but his 2020 release Rooted Forward is one that...
Raw energy and elegant frenzy have been abiding concepts that drive the music of Papo Vázquez, who has thrown, together with his singular ensemble the Mighty...
Inside the highly evocative cover of this CD package – Mariposas Cantan – is also contained some of the most evocative music ever made by José...
Featured Album · Editor’s Pick The juxtaposition of two major musicians – without a piano to bind them harmonically and only a bassist and drummer to...
The singular scholarship of John Santos has never been in any doubt. Though the Introduction to Art of the Descarga delves into the details of this...
The most remarkable aspect of the music of Pablo Ablanedo is the compositions themselves. As an artist Mr Ablanedo has a prodigious gift for sonic architecture....
The African Diaspora spread rather evenly [so to speak] throughout the Caribbean and it is manifest in many aspects of culture from the Gulf Coast of...
A big band project with Tony Succar and Pablo Gil at the helm has probably been in the making for much longer than the two years...
In a world mad about Afro-Caribbean music, the name Samuel Torres may not be the first to come to mind, but it most certainly should albeit...
Featured Album · Editor’s Pick Mart’nália sings in a voice like seda crua cara – expensive raw silk – and she makes the words of Vinicius...
Featured Album · Editor’s Pick In the nearly two decades of its existence, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra has come to be regarded as one of the...
