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....
A Musical Journey of Love, Friendship and the Power of Imagination The Cuban is a “a story of how the power of music knows no barriers”....
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,...
Alex Cuba And Friends 2016-2017 Season, The Royal Conservatory, World, World Music Concerts DATE: Saturday, April 8, 2017 | TIME: 8:00 pm PRICE: Starting at $45.00...
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,”...
Canefire – Jeremy Ledbetter’s High Octane, Caribbean Jazz Powerhouse in Concert at Jazz Bistro in Toronto, on Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 8:00 pm. Toronto-based Caribbean...
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...