Internationally acclaimed pianist Shelly Berg releases trio album Alegría featuring new music and reimagined favorites, featuring Carlitos Del Puerto and Dafnis Prieto. Alegría is out July...
The musical journey of the consummate pianist and erudite composer, Elio Villafranca may be described as nothing if not what the celebrated Victor Frankl described in...
Featured Album · Editor’s Pick In the nearly two decades of its existence, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra has come to be regarded as one of the...
For the last fifteen years few music ensembles have dominated the world of salsa like the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. So, it was only fitting that the...
There has always been a healthy restlessness to Elio Villafranca. When I spoke to him in February 2015 he was about to debut a new suite...
Editor’s Pick · Featured Album The record package itself for Cinque is modest, but oddly impressive; its black cover has the title and Mr Villafranca’s name...
Editor’s Pick · Featured Album There has never been any doubt that Doug Beavers is among the most important artists in the burgeoning Latin-Jazz musical arena....
This debut performance on record by Letizia Gambi will be remembered for a very, very long time. What is striking is that this marvellous release comes...
The Battle has begun, the Battle of… Titans! The Grammy Award winner Doug Beavers brings us his exquisite, new album, Titanes del Trombón, a tremendous musical...
The celebrated ensemble led by pianist and musical director Oscar Hernández has been in the limelight since 2002, when their debut recording, Un Gran Día En...
In most musicians, just like nice ordinary people, molecules are made up of DNA just like the unique people that each is. But in the case...
Among some of the most significant aspects of the career of the legendary Gil Evans that seems lost to listeners of great music is that his...