The idea that the vibrant and seductive [African-European] melodies, harmonies and – particularly – rhythms of Cuban music have washed ashore thousands of miles away from ...
The music of Africa – music played in Africa by African people, or those who they choose to allow into their inner circle – is not...
On her album Havana Nocturne, the singer Aymée Nuviola has certainly masterfully and deeply interiorized the classic Cuban music [and dance] forms of canción and the...
Human history – as Gilgamesh, Homeric epics, Biblical narratives and other sagas – will tell us, is a series of events where characters, as often as...
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...
Sometimes in music you enter through a door and discover that the room you are now in has no walls, no ceiling and no floor. Indeed,...
Of the many – and often chameleonic – ways to describe the music of Dafnis Prieto the word “questing” comes to mind most often and also...
Adriano Clemente is an Italian multi-instrumentalist (who plays Columbian harp, piano and saxophone) and composer who has pushed his own horizons so much further outside Europe...
If there is anyone who communicates through music and life it could be said that few people do it better than Paquito D’Rivera. If you have...
There is no “one” single iconic recording by the great Bebo Valdés. The pianist was an epitomé of good taste, which is not the reason for...
“The piano is not a part of my body, it’s me. For me, music is Spirit.” – Bebo Valdés Celebrating the Life and Music of One...
Chico & Rita – Animated movie by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal – 2010 Toronto International Film Festival A seemingly ordinary, but tormented love story between...