[New York] – The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance & The Town Hall Present: Dizzy, Chano and Chico — The Original Influencers — 75 Years Later at Town Hall. A...
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...
The trombone should not really be considered a relatively unfamiliar instrument in Cuban music. After all the proximity of African-centric cultures between Havana and New Orleans...
These recordings have captured the vibraphone artistry of Cal Tjader in what was to become the last years of his life. He was only signed to...
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...
The year 2015 has seen two monumental musical works where Afro-Caribbean music collides with Jazz: The first is Elio Villafranca’s suite, Cinque which was premiered at...
Afro-Cuban Jazz & Beyond Hilario Durán & Ignacio Berroa Chris Mitchell, Jorge Luis Torres and Roberto Occhipinti *Canadian Summer Tour 2015 The influence of Afro-Cuban music...
Arturo “Chico” O’Farrill, who was born in Cuba in 1921, decided to follow family tradition and enter into law practice. But before he could complete his...
Tito Puente, “El Rey del timbal” was almost singlehandedly responsible for bringing Cuban son, mambo and cha-cha-cha into the ballrooms and...
For more than three decades as both a leader and a sideman, conguero Poncho Sanchez has stirred up a fiery stew of straightahead jazz, gritty soul...
Chico & Rita – Animated movie by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal – 2010 Toronto International Film Festival A seemingly ordinary, but tormented love story between...