With Armando Mi Conga, pianist, composer, music director and arranger Irving Flores offers a vibrant and deeply considered contribution to contemporary Afro-Cuban jazz. Recorded live in...
On August 6, 2025, the music world lost a towering creative force. Eddie Palmieri, the Bronx-born pianist who transformed Latin music and jazz with his explosive...
The cuatro Cubano of Kiki Valera ripples over the opening phrase of Este Vacilón on this ever so magical music of Vacilón Santiaguero. We are plunged...
The trumpeter Brian Lynch needs no introduction to aficionados of what is all-too-often referred to Latin Jazz [but which musicians – including Eddie Palmieri, Mr Lynch’s...
Composer and pianist Michael Eckroth is a charismatic artist, a distinctive voice in a field crowded with technically immaculate but intermittently inspired players. Moreover, Mr Eckroth...
It took a while for Marlon Simon to launch his celebrated career as a leader of his own ensembles. He took the plunge, however, in 1998,...
There are many reasons why it is a remarkable travesty of justice that the celebrated Venezuelan drummer and percussionist, Marlon Simon, has had to resort to...
The real Cuba may be just about ninety miles away from the tip of Florida, but where Señor Groove come from, in Miami, there’s more of...
When Alex Conde turns up the power at any given time, he’s like an orchestra all by himself. Now magnify that several times on Origins, a...
Everything about Caliente Corner suggests that the multi-instrumentalist Alfredo Chacón is on his way to the pinnacle of his powers – both as a composer and...
That Dafnis Prieto has undertaken an epic musical voyage is clear from the music on this disc. Back to the Sunset, is the culmination of a...
Of the many – and often chameleonic – ways to describe the music of Dafnis Prieto the word “questing” comes to mind most often and also...
The misty nature of this meditative, multi-layered music by Guillermo Nojechowicz on Puerto de Buenos Aires is most awe-inspiring. Moreover despite using palpably Argentinean forms as...
Editor’s Pick · Album of the Month · A Latin Jazz Perspective On The Music Of Woody Shaw Woody Shaw was an artist endowed with two...
The utter simplicity of this title – Music in Me – does not even begin to convey the depth and sophistication of the music on this...