Some tribute albums look back. Bobby Sanabria and the Multiverse Big Band’s Arsenio and Beyond (Live at The Bronx Music Hall) moves forward. Recorded live at...
Featuring Cucho Martinez and the Ray Mantilla Legacy Band This special tribute concert honours the life and legacy of legendary Bronx-born Latin jazz percussionist Ray Mantilla,...
Legendary drummer, percussionist, Bronx Walk of Fame artist and native Nuyorican S.O.B. (Son of the Bronx) Bobby Sanabria brings his incredible 24 piece multi-Grammy nominated Multiverse...
To the iconic composer, drummer, and bandleader, Bobby Sanabria who leads – proverbially and literally – from the front, The Multiverse is a living metaphor created...
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...
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...
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...
That the members of the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra has always been a group of jazz professionals masquerading is one of those truisms...
That was one helluva tribute they paid Mr. Dave Valentin at the Tarrytown Music Hall on Thursday, November 7th! Concert Review by Chico Alvarez Peraza, WBAI...