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...
As in football, so also in music, Brasil’s cup runneth over. So great is the outflow in fact that both have reached the furthest corners of...
There is no guitarist who sounds so laid back, yet incredibly cool than Ray Obiedo. In fact, he plays with such a languid, liquid style, one...
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...
Human history – as Gilgamesh, Homeric epics, Biblical narratives and other sagas – will tell us, is a series of events where characters, as often as...
This exquisite disc Cinema City, from the captivating vocalist Mafalda Minnozzi, celebrates the music of great Italian cinema music – largely in the form of ballads....
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...
In bringing together his exquisite ensemble Telavana, the flutist Itai Kriss showed that he was eager to extend his wide musical hug in one embrace, sweeping...
