Featured photo of Antonio Adolfo by Paul Constantinides Antonio Carlos Jobim may be one of the most revered Brasilian musicians in recent memory and few musicians...
“Social distancing” became the buzz-words of our world for more than a year and a half between 2020 and 2021. Everyone suffered in body and soul...
Featured photo of Jovino Santos Neto by Rhonda Stewart Performing solo on a piano – even before a large audience – comes with a sense of...
If something in the water of Cuba gives birth to prodigious artistry it is in their great conservatoires of Habana that this artistry – more often...
Of all the Afro-Cuban musicians playing the “conventional” [if you could at all call it that] North American – or “Jazz” – drum sets there is no...
There are few musicians more eminently qualified to revisit changüí – that unique Afro-Cuban dance-narrative form – than the inimitable contrabassist Yelsy Heredia. A native of...
Editor’s note: Real Project won a Cubadisco 2021 Award for this album, GES [Grupo de Experimentación Sonora] in the category of Antología y versiones [Anthology and...
The name of José Miguel Crego “El Greco” is a familiar one to those who view the long line of radiant Cuban trumpeters that includes several...
The faux-image of rumba as a glitzy ballroom-dance is mostly one made in North-America [read that as USA]. The genuine article, heard in Cuba itself, is...
Miguel de Armas has always come across as a musical voluptuary, born of a kind of rhythmically seductive pianism with which we first heard him in...
Arturo O’Farrill has – for a very long time – been exploring long-form composition and using it to express [by American standards, at least] his rather...
This music by Charlie Sepúlveda has the indelible stamp of the Afro-Caribbean rhythms that makes the music he plays unique unto himself – just as it...
It is, indeed, so easy to make the proverbial “conexión” between the Bronx and the interminable rhythm that echoes seemingly throughout El Barrio when you listen...
It is first the exotic and beautifully whimsical blue make-up and floral hat that draws you into her world, before the album title – Kumbhaka, so...
Both dedicatory albums by Alex Conde – Descarga for Monk and now, Descarga for Bud – are ineffably compelling [as only the prodigious Mr Conde is...
