There is not too much music that can stir the soul like Afro-Cuban music – especially the languid magic of the bolero and son, and other...
The ubiquitous Trinidadian – and, in Toronto, pan-Caribbean – Instrument: the steelpan has never sounded so exquisite than in the delicately feminine hands of Joy Lapps...
The alto saxophonist Luis Deniz may have been a relatively late Cuban arrival in Canada, descending upon the music scene in Toronto in 2004. However, the...
This album, Telecommunications, is one of the most iconic recordings by Azymuth, the ineffably funky Brasilian trio. When it was released – on the Milestone label...
Anyone approaching this film about the iconic Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa, by the award-winning filmmaker Soren Sorensen will be almost immediately struck by its...
1968 saw the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; black athletes staged a silent demonstration at the Summer Olympics and the popular Sci-Fi...
Carlos Averhoff Jr. may certainly be forgiven for having waited to make his best album ever – a most profound dedication to his celebrated musician-saxophone playing-virtuoso-father...
The longevity and the durability of the musical relationship between Paquito D’Rivera and Chucho Valdés give a freedom and flexibility to these performances on I Missed...
There is an infectious effervescence about the music on Punto de Partida by Hugo Cruz and Caminos, and this is perhaps, the most winning aspect of...
The West Coast of the United States has had a rather long – and celebrated – association with the music of Brasil. Rique Pantoja is tapping...
To call this album Entre Amigos by Günther Brück magnificent and brilliant – or using another superlative epithet to describe the repertoire on it would be...
Carlos Cippelletti celebrates the Cuban part of his gloriously evocative, mixed heritage with great expressive freedom in the magical repertoire on his album, Hybrid/C. The works...
Where Next? The title of this disc seems to ask an existential question that many musicians might ask themselves. But do not be under the impression...
Who thought that the wild, lively sound of Dominican merengue could be woven into a subtle and melodic web that beautifully brings out its underlying delicacy?...
The spirit of Art Blakey roars in this music as it soars into the heavens. Art is the plainly entitled homage to the towering leader of...
