Héctor Infanzón, recognized as one of the most complete Mexican pianists, is a performer and composer with a solid classical training. He has a vast experience...
Leon Lee Dorsey once enjoyed the company of the celebrated [late] pianist Hilton Ruiz, playing in one of the last ensembles the incomparable pianist brought together....
For the Brasilian singer Guai – not nearly as known as she deserves to be – to take this repertoire – none of which she has...
You may think you “know” the Bronx – and the South Bronx – in particular and depending on the time you have spent visiting it you...
The question of how to build a compact disc with repertoire immersed deep in a metaphysical concept of the nature and relations of beings is comprehensively...
Featured photo of Antonio Adolfo by Paul Constantinides Antonio Carlos Jobim may be one of the most revered Brasilian musicians in recent memory and few musicians...
“Social distancing” became the buzz-words of our world for more than a year and a half between 2020 and 2021. Everyone suffered in body and soul...
When rumba – the pure Afro-Cuban music for voices and percussion – filtered down from the Matanzas to Habana, it was only a matter of time...
Featured photo of Jovino Santos Neto by Rhonda Stewart Performing solo on a piano – even before a large audience – comes with a sense of...
The Cuban island reverberates from dawn to dusk – from sea to sea – with the rhythmic chants of the sacred and secular music at every...
If something in the water of Cuba gives birth to prodigious artistry it is in their great conservatoires of Habana that this artistry – more often...
Desde Rafael Hernández a Miguel Zenón (Second Edition) In November 2020, author, journalist, educator Wilbert Sostre Maldonado released the second (Spanish) edition of Boricua Jazz: La...
Of all the Afro-Cuban musicians playing the “conventional” [if you could at all call it that] North American – or “Jazz” – drum sets there is no...
There are few musicians more eminently qualified to revisit changüí – that unique Afro-Cuban dance-narrative form – than the inimitable contrabassist Yelsy Heredia. A native of...
Editor’s note: Real Project won a Cubadisco 2021 Award for this album, GES [Grupo de Experimentación Sonora] in the category of Antología y versiones [Anthology and...
