The loneliness of the social isolation during the two-year-old global pandemic may have been soul-destroying for some – indeed most of us who lived through it...
Brasilians like the incomparable drummer and musician nonpareil Duduka Da Fonseca know that “samba” is dance – something glorified not only in the way music is...
The celebrated ballet by Piotr Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker – became such a worldwide success in the composer’s lifetime that he [Tchaikovsky himself] made a selection...
This recording, Higher Grounds, is a short extended play – just under half an hour – and if DO’A was testing the proverbial waters to gauge...
When Roxana Amed released her debut album Ontology, it was clear that a musician of prodigious gifts had been hiding in plain sight and that album...
The album Front Street Duets played by the great Hilario Durán and his one-time acolyte, David Virelles is a sublime recording. It is one that only...
The trumpeter Brian Lynch needs no introduction to aficionados of what is all-too-often referred to Latin Jazz [but which musicians – including Eddie Palmieri, Mr Lynch’s...
There is something quite special about Ella, the 2022 album recorded by the prodigious pianist Glenda Del E and equally gifted violinist Daniela Padrón. There are...
With the spectacularly intriguing album Cantar the drummer, composer, pedagogue and – now in one fell swoop – an out-and-out songwriter as well, Dafnis Prieto makes...
The inimitable pianist, Rafael Zaldivar – like almost every Afro-Cuban musician – has never really left his heritage behind, no matter how far from his home...
Oscar Hernández and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra [SHO] have set the bar so high for the kind of Afro-Caribbean ensemble musicianship that no one but the...
There is not too much music that can stir the soul like Afro-Cuban music – especially the languid magic of the bolero and son, and other...
The ubiquitous Trinidadian – and, in Toronto, pan-Caribbean – Instrument: the steelpan has never sounded so exquisite than in the delicately feminine hands of Joy Lapps...
The alto saxophonist Luis Deniz may have been a relatively late Cuban arrival in Canada, descending upon the music scene in Toronto in 2004. However, the...
This album, Telecommunications, is one of the most iconic recordings by Azymuth, the ineffably funky Brasilian trio. When it was released – on the Milestone label...
