Celebrating 25 years! The multi-Grammy nominated Bobby Sanabria MULTIVERSE Big Band is set to release their new recording: “Vox Humana” featuring vocalists Janis Siegel, Antoinette Montague, Jennifer Jade Ledesna. Recorded Live...
No matter the label (Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz etc.) Jazz simply isn’t Jazz without the scope of Latin influence that helped shaped it. As...
Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture announces complete schedule, artistic personnel and activities for Machito & the Impact of the Afro-Cubans at 80 (May 2...
Jerome Robbins’ seminal story of danger and the triumph of love, West Side Story inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet has been told on...
Celebrating the Centennial of Composer Leonard Bernstein| Hostos Center For The Arts And Culture Presents: Bobby Sanabria & the MultiVerse Big Band West Side Story Reimagined...
The Jazz Education Network has awarded its top two honors to John Edward Hasse and Bobby Sanabria at its January 2018 annual conference in Dallas. Hasse...
Salsa Meets Jazz for Puerto Rico with Multi-Grammy nominated Bobby Sanabria MULTIVERSE Big Band and very special guests David Amram • NEA Jazz Master Paquito D’Rivera...
While being interviewed after he was rediscovered by Andy Garcia, the bassist Cachao let it slip that even the great Dizzy Gillespie didn’t always have his...
Don’t let the trinkly, yet resonant sound of the Fender Rhodes, announcing the advent of Mongo Santamaria’s “Afro-Blue”, to kick off the Curtis Brothers Quartet’s Syzygy...
Essential Albums Revisited At first blush one might feel that William Cepeda AfroRican Jazz: My Roots and Beyond might seem like an attempt to re-brand what...
The history of music of Afro-Cuban origin, music that begat Latin-Jazz cannot be told in 500 words, not in a thousand and you can only make...
The ubiquitous and colourful conga drum often resides in a cluttered space especially in Latin Jazz, a music that it seems to have shaped and given...
Sixteen years ago Bobby Sanabria took his Big Band on the road and when they were in Birdland on May 20 in 1999, the indefatigable leader...
From the earliest times of its existence—certainly during the 1700’s and the baroque era of Johann Sebastian Bach—the organ has been...
A benefit concert for the Grammy Award-winning Latin jazz flutist Dave Valentin will be presented in the Main Theater at the Hostos Center for the Arts...