Any recording by the inimitable César Orozco & Kamarata Jazz would be one to look forward to, but his 2020 release Rooted Forward is one that...
Raw energy and elegant frenzy have been abiding concepts that drive the music of Papo Vázquez, who has thrown, together with his singular ensemble the Mighty...
Inside the highly evocative cover of this CD package – Mariposas Cantan – is also contained some of the most evocative music ever made by José...
Featured Album · Editor’s Pick The juxtaposition of two major musicians – without a piano to bind them harmonically and only a bassist and drummer to...
With this extended play of five songs on Noche Cubana the Cuban-born, Amsterdam-based vocalist Estrella Acosta covers an impressive array of classic Cuban music from the...
You will realise just how much you missed listening to the eloquence of classic standards from the very first bars of Lauren Henderson’s recording, The Songbook...
The singular scholarship of John Santos has never been in any doubt. Though the Introduction to Art of the Descarga delves into the details of this...
The most remarkable aspect of the music of Pablo Ablanedo is the compositions themselves. As an artist Mr Ablanedo has a prodigious gift for sonic architecture....
The culture of the Caribbean – entrenched, as it is in the indigenous populations of the various islands – is also dominated by two other major...
The young pianist Adrien Brandeis has taken an extraordinarily challenging step on Meetings, which is just his second recording as leader. He has chosen to engage...
The African Diaspora spread rather evenly [so to speak] throughout the Caribbean and it is manifest in many aspects of culture from the Gulf Coast of...
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...
