The Santiago, Chile-born Raúl Gutiérrez has been a frequent traveller to Havana, where he’s been imbued with both the rhythms and the spirit of Cuba’s glorious...
Introduction If there is anything that we ought to have learned from the scientists, from Pythagoras and Archimedes, Ptolemy and Kepler, to Charles Darwin and Stephen...
The title of this album, that is Cadencias, by Leandro Saint-Hill and his quartet seems to fit the music like a velvet glove. The “cadences” of...
In a country like Cuba – where music education programmes have tended to be designed for the 19th century, and where the European-style conservatoire has reigned...
The name [and reputation] of the great Cuban composer and pianist Frank Emilio Flynn bears similarities to that of the Brasilian composer and saxophonist Moacir Santos....
I almost didn’t log into Vimeo at 8 o’clock on Saturday night, March the 27th. It’s not that the programme wasn’t beckoning enough. After all it...
It turns out that time and again the artist and not the politician or even diplomat is his country’s ambassador. Certainly this is true of culture,...
Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie – the legendary trumpeter and creative twin of the great [and equally-legendary] Charlie Parker – is not uncommon, especially among Cuban musicians, who...
Latin Jazz Network is a project dedicated to the advancement of Latin jazz and its creators. Since 2000 LJN has been spreading the word about this...
When producer, innovator, and self-described “extrovert of manic proportions and overachiever,” Al Santiago heard Panart’s Cuban Jam Sessions (1959) he flipped. “Wow! How loose, groovy, funky and...
No matter what setting he is performing in, whenever Harold López-Nussa is engaged in performance you can be rest assured of music where the grace and...
You can always count on Doug Beavers – one of the creative mainstays of the formidable Spanish Harlem Orchestra – to surprise you with every album...
Chico Pinheiro’s album City of Dreams – so appropriately entitled for 2020 – is spectacular and proves that even in a very crowded field [especially for...
Today, Cortijo & His Time Machine y su Máquina del Tiempo (Coco Records, 1974) is considered a classic and (misleadingly) one of the top-ten salsa recordings...
A rare, albeit singular feeling of joy while living under a lockdown due to the pandemic is the receipt, in the mail, of a recording by...
