On the 22nd of May, The Sound Room on upper Broadway in Oakland, California, presented guitarist Ray Obiedo and his...
On April 25, 2026, Koerner Hall became the site of something far greater than a conventional jazz performance. Presented by The Royal Conservatory of Music, the...
Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez: BEATrio Something about trios demands a certain synchronicity for the format to fire as one. The players, regardless of...
Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Celebrate Bebop and Afro-Cuban Legacy at Koerner Hall in Toronto On the evening of Saturday, March 7, 2026,...
It has been a long time, ten years to be exact, since Paquito D’Rivera last graced the stage at the Miner auditorium in the SF Jazz...
Walking into Sam First near the LAX airport on July the 29th for the first time, I was taken aback by the intimate nature of the...
Having seen Isaiah Collier and The Chosen Few last year in San Francisco, I foolishly thought he would be doing much the same show in Berkeley,...
On two separate occasions this year my wife and I have experienced the engaging music of Humberto Ramírez’s Big Band at the Restaurant Metropol, Isla Verde,...
With the help of Danilo Navas, my wife and I were able to witness an outstanding concert on our recent trip to Puerto Rico featuring the...
The evening of March 1, 2025 at Koerner Hall in Toronto marked the world premiere of Warm Winds From Cuba, a project that featured the beloved Canadian saxophonist, flautist,...
The evening of February 20, 2025 at Koerner Hall in Toronto was really special. On the first part of a double bill concert, we experienced an...
February in Toronto has been cold and snowy, it’s not unusual, it’s winter after all, but in the True North we are used to harsh weather,...
At the beginning of each of the last three years, John Santos gathered together his sextet and musician friends and had a CD release party, this...
Having followed Ray Obiedo’s groups for four decades, I was delighted to see that his Latin Jazz Project was playing for two nights at The Sound...
For quite a while I had been trying to see Isaiah Collier and The Chosen Few, to no avail. I was refused entry to a venue...
