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...
The trumpeter Brian Lynch needs no introduction to aficionados of what is all-too-often referred to Latin Jazz [but which musicians – including Eddie Palmieri, Mr Lynch’s...
*Editor’s Pick – Album of the month – Armando Manzanero is 80 years old now. But he has been practicing his craft since the age of...
The concept of a collision between jazz and classical music is not new. The fantasy has been driving composers and performers as early as the turn...
Hard on the heels of the carioca, Leo Gandelman comes the infinitely younger carioca, Michel Nirenberg, a musician steeped in choro and samba. A brilliant woodwinds...
Even for a pianist with as prodigious a talent as Alex Brown, having a heavyweight in the music pantheon such as Paquito D’Rivera produce his debut...