During the course of your mission as a music critic you might come across numerous recordings that are really good – even great. But every once...
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...
It took a while for Marlon Simon to launch his celebrated career as a leader of his own ensembles. He took the plunge, however, in 1998,...
We have always known that Miguel de León can sing with equal facility in both Spanish and Portuguese, which can be a daunting task for native...
Thanks in large part to the inimitable drummer Duduka Da Fonseca and Family Adnet, the music of the great Brasilian maestro, Tom Jobim remains top-of-mind and...
In matters of art – poetry, drama, music and painting – the “timelessness” of the art in question is effected by the fact that the experience...
Milton Nascimento remains one of the greatest musicians to come out of that country. He is revered and adored by Brasilians living in Brasil and the...
It is not easy – by any stretch of imagination – for a drummer to restrain his instrument from taking over the musical soundscape thereby making...
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...
The legendary Totó La Momposina, a musician of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous descent is at pains to tell anyone who will listen that there is a big...
John Finbury has long since displayed a prodigious gift for musicianship in all its forms – not simply popular forms, but also traditional and contemporary Brasilian...
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...
Mother Africa – and everything that makes her ineffably beautiful – has probably never been as alive and the centre of attention since the first civilisations...
It doesn’t take much any longer – not after Jurassic Park – to imagine how amber could be a miraculous, almost living crucible of life on...
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...
