A Powerful Statement in Afro-Cuban Big Band Music There are moments in an artist’s trajectory when vision, experience, and timing converge into something definitive. With Afrokando,...
From the vibrant streets of Havana to the dynamic pulse of Canada’s jazz scene, Alexis Baró has carved out a powerful and deeply personal musical voice....
Set for release in April 2026 on Lulaworld Records, Por Amor finds Toronto-based Cuban-Canadian singer Marta Elena delivering her most focused and emotionally resonant work to...
The cuatro Cubano of Kiki Valera ripples over the opening phrase of Este Vacilón on this ever so magical music of Vacilón Santiaguero. We are plunged...
The Latin Side of Jazz is a curated playlist that showcases selected tracks from the best Latin jazz, Cuban, Brasilian, Flamenco, Ibero-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latin jazz music....
It’s odd to think that a recording in 2019 could be deemed to have become “historic” upon its release, but this one – Vivencias en Clave...
On the evening of Saturday, February 9, 2019, Cuban-Canadian piano master Hilario Durán and his Latin Jazz Big Band returned to Koerner Hall in Toronto. This...
Carlos Averhoff Jr. has lineage. The son of the incomparable Carlos Averhoff Sr. better known as “Carlos Averhoff Sax”, Mr Averhoff Jr. is also a tenor...
The pianist Miguel de Armas is blessed with a magnificent tumbao and he uses it to great effect on What’s to Come. But if you thought...
If there is one place outside Cuba, El Barrio and the Bay Area, where African music survives and thrives it is in Toronto. This is largely...
The Toronto Jazz Festival is always a happening event and as with jazz so it seems that the Toronto Jazz Festival does some improvising, changing personnel,...
Canada sometimes feels a lot like the Afro-Cuban mainland. The country is bristling with talent from the fabled island of the Orishas among other not-so-savoury things....
Musical ideas appear to come at the gifted Canadian musician and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Ledbetter from many directions. These cannot always be described as “countries of origin,”...
There is a certain fire that burns with a quietude that, although atypical of the Latin soul, still contains much of the passion that is contained...